On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > One thing that I think could be useful for both the OpenPVR project as > well as for V4L in general is a V4L loopback device. The ability to > (re-)capture through the V4L API the contents of a fie which is an > already captured stream would be useful for a) people to play with V4L > that don't have actual hardware (yet) and b) for doing comparisons of > codecs and encoding parameters. Something like this was just announced on the mplayer list - some v4l "plumbing" such that video output can be captured using v4l. Steve