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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-03-08 02:28:40 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-03-08 02:51:45 +0100
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* qatar/master: (29 commits) sbrdsp.asm: convert all instructions to float/SSE ones. dv: cosmetics. dv: check buffer size before reading profile. Revert "AAC SBR: group some writes." udp: Print an error message if bind fails cook: extend channel uncoupling tables so the full bit range is covered. roqvideo: cosmetics. roqvideo: convert to bytestream2 API. dca: don't use av_clip_uintp2(). wmall: fix build with -DDEBUG enabled. smc: port to bytestream2 API. AAC SBR: group some writes. dsputil: remove shift parameter from scalarproduct_int16 SBR DSP: unroll sum_square rv34: remove dead code in intra availability check rv34: clean a bit availability checks. v4l2: update documentation tgq: convert to bytestream2 API. parser: remove forward declaration of MpegEncContext dca: prevent accessing static arrays with invalid indexes. ... Conflicts: doc/indevs.texi libavcodec/Makefile libavcodec/dca.c libavcodec/dvdata.c libavcodec/eatgq.c libavcodec/mmvideo.c libavcodec/roqvideodec.c libavcodec/smc.c libswscale/output.c Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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@@ -504,9 +504,9 @@ command:
ffmpeg -f sndio -i /dev/audio0 /tmp/oss.wav
@end example
-@section video4linux and video4linux2
+@section video4linux2
-Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 input video devices.
+Video4Linux2 input video device.
The name of the device to grab is a file device node, usually Linux
systems tend to automatically create such nodes when the device
@@ -514,36 +514,21 @@ systems tend to automatically create such nodes when the device
kind @file{/dev/video@var{N}}, where @var{N} is a number associated to
the device.
-Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 devices only support a limited set of
+Video4Linux2 devices usually support a limited set of
@var{width}x@var{height} sizes and framerates. You can check which are
-supported for example with the command @command{dov4l} for Video4Linux
-devices and using @command{-list_formats all} for Video4Linux2 devices.
+supported using @command{-list_formats all} for Video4Linux2 devices.
-If the size for the device is set to 0x0, the input device will
-try to auto-detect the size to use.
-Only for the video4linux2 device, if the frame rate is set to 0/0 the
-input device will use the frame rate value already set in the driver.
-
-Video4Linux support is deprecated since Linux 2.6.30, and will be
-dropped in later versions.
+Some usage examples of the video4linux2 devices with ffmpeg and ffplay:
Note that if FFmpeg is build with v4l-utils support ("--enable-libv4l2"
option), it will always be used.
-
-Follow some usage examples of the video4linux devices with the ff*
-tools.
@example
-# Grab and show the input of a video4linux device, frame rate is set
-# to the default of 25/1.
-ffplay -s 320x240 -f video4linux /dev/video0
-
-# Grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device, auto-adjust size.
-ffplay -f video4linux2 /dev/video0
+# Grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device.
+ffplay -f video4linux2 -framerate 30 -video_size hd720 /dev/video0
-# Grab and record the input of a video4linux2 device, auto-adjust size,
-# frame rate value defaults to 0/0 so it is read from the video4linux2
-# driver.
-ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 out.mpeg
+# Grab and record the input of a video4linux2 device, leave the
+framerate and size as previously set.
+ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -input_format mjpeg -i /dev/video0 out.mpeg
@end example
"v4l" and "v4l2" can be used as aliases for the respective "video4linux" and