On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > I am digging around but can't seem to find any info > > regarding video4linux usage/development without using X11. > > I would like to know if it is possible to use video4linux > > to capture video input to a console buffer. > > > > or is X11 a requirement in all cases? > > Sure is. V4L/V4L2 is a video API, and is not related to X11. Any application > can grab frames using the V4L/V4L2 API, and render those frames to the screen > (using X11 or not). The video overlay feature of V4L probably works on the > console framebuffer too. > > Laurent Pinchart There is one exception: GATOS v4l driver (km) requires X11 driver. If you try to open km v4l device without having TV playback already setup it will return -ENODATA and log a message in dmesg. best Vladimir Dergachev > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >