Re: Input video-data to v4l from userspace

Johannes Dohmen wrote:

I realy don't want to write a new video-player (there are so
many so good players around).
It occured a good idea to me, to somehow get the data in the
v4l-layer, that any v4l-able program (mplayer, xawtv, xine etc)
could playback the data... what do you think about this idea?
Good/bad (why?)? Possible/impossible?

You think too complicated.

If you really want to use an external player program (the
avaliable player libraries are quite easy to use, which explains
the not so small amount of frontends): Just pipe the video
stream on the player programs stdin and start the player in a
way, that it reads from stdin.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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