Hiya, I don't know much about the camera system that you are proposing to get running, but about the APIs: As far as I can tell, the home of the APIs is at roadrunner.etc.swansea.somewhereinengland or something like that. This website is highly weather-dependant, in the sense that it is officially up, but you can only reach it sometimes, when the weather is good. As far as I am aware there is no other home for the API docs. However, the pages that can be seen on the roadrunner site are also more or less included with the kernel. See: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/API.html in any recent kernel. While the documents are not exactly the same, it does not matter, since neither of them agree with what is actually implemented. I found my best source of information after reading over the API.html file was: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/videodev.h Of course none of these will really tell you how to work with the other end of v4l, these APIs just cover the v4l to screen API, not the camera to v4l mechanisms. Richie On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, cg.mk.snow wrote: > Hi all, > I just found this mailing list, and have been reading on it for a little while. Most the stuff here is a bit over my head still, but I will try to keep up. > Have several questions. > I noticed that most the posts from this group include a "" in the subject line. Is this one of those things where I am going to get body slammed for not reading some FAQ, or is it to help keep track from which mailing list the message originated? If I am suppose to read something or the header has some special meaning please let me know. > > My final goal in joining this group is to try and get the x-10 multi cam system running in Linux. Is this the right place to be, or is there a better suited list? > > Finally, I have done several searches on Google for running x-10 cameras through the USB port, but have only had luck with getting onfoon the "firecracker" module. Having the ability to turn on the cameras is nice, but it does not help display the video stream to the monitor. If anyone knows the link to a site where someone is already doing the cameras, it would be appreciated. > > I almost forgot. I have searched for the V4L API, but all the links that claim to have it fail on my web browser. Does anyone know of a link where I can get the latest info on, and download the API? > > Regards all, > Cliff >
