Jeffrey Dever <jsdever@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm perplexed as to how to read captures from the video device. I can > do quite a bit to control my webcam (probe, set window ...) but there > seems to be several modes of reading captures. I'm just trying to do > a simple capture, so I don't want to use mmap at this point as I want > to keep it as simple as possible. If you are using bttv, make sure you have the 0.9.x version. In 0.7.x capture via read() simply doesn't work. Gerd -- Weil die späten Diskussionen nicht mal mehr den Rotwein lohnen. -- Wacholder in “Melanie”