On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 16:26 +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to bring up the V4L1 deprecation goal, again. The original > proposal from Ben was: > > > Video4Linux version 1 (V4L1) was obsoleted in the kernel by version 2 > > (V4L2) some years ago and newer video capture drivers do not support > > V4L1. Applications should all be using V4L2. There is a library (libv4l) > > that can aid in converting applications that were written for V4L1. > > Fedora has patched a number of applications to use this. > > > > Advocates: Ben Hutchings > > anyone else? > > Short name: novideo4linux1 > > Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoVideo4Linux1 > > I'm maintaining the libv4l package that translates the V4L1 calls of the > application into V4L2 syscalls. > > I'll try to track down all work needing packages on the mentioned wiki page. Thanks, I haven't been working on this for some time. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999
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