> Being new to v4l programming, I am asking for your help and experience. Does > anyone know a workaround for this that would enhance the speed of the > conversion? Is there perhaps a way to get true RGB24 using v4l? No, there isn't. v4l has only BGR order. v4l2 has format #defines for both byte orders (RGB + BGR), but there still is no guaranty that the format you want to use is supported by the driver. You have to be prepared to do some conversion in software if needed. Gerd -- You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please everybody, the end result is one big mess. -- Linus Torvalds, 2002-04-20