From 914e7ef56c195ec48a120e8738bf0043b9f3672c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexis Ballier Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:51:14 +0000 Subject: Initial import, ebuild by Alexandre Rostovtsev tetromino@gmail.com who will proxy maintin it, bug #240090 Package-Manager: portage-2.2_rc12/cvs/Linux 2.6.26.6 x86_64 --- media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml (limited to 'media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml') diff --git a/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml b/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..78efe127636a --- /dev/null +++ b/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + + + + media-tv + + aballier@gentoo.org + Alexis Ballier + + + tetromino@gmail.com + Alexandre Rostovtsev + + + libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on + top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it + easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without + having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. + + libv4l consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2. + + libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixelformat + to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420. + + libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent + of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many + v4l2 drivers do not). + + libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the + application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad