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authorStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2013-01-31 12:53:50 +0100
committerStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2013-01-31 15:29:53 +0100
commita842dc632ecaee437bac10e37c9d9d234089517d (patch)
treeab6f24602179d6c24ba4d4f7983e24a2d1dfc18e /doc
parent514216d8a928cf80980ca8dc5daea46e9d41cad9 (diff)
doc/indevs: apply misc fixes to the v4l2 documentation
Reviewed-by: Giorgio Vazzana <mywing81@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/indevs.texi17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/indevs.texi b/doc/indevs.texi
index 82d500dff8..39204d80c0 100644
--- a/doc/indevs.texi
+++ b/doc/indevs.texi
@@ -583,10 +583,16 @@ command:
ffmpeg -f sndio -i /dev/audio0 /tmp/oss.wav
@end example
-@section video4linux2
+@section video4linux2, v4l2
Video4Linux2 input video device.
+"v4l2" can be used as alias for "video4linux2".
+
+If FFmpeg is built with v4l-utils support (by using the
+@code{--enable-libv4l2} configure option), the device will always rely
+on libv4l2.
+
The name of the device to grab is a file device node, usually Linux
systems tend to automatically create such nodes when the device
(e.g. an USB webcam) is plugged into the system, and has a name of the
@@ -599,8 +605,6 @@ supported using @command{-list_formats all} for Video4Linux2 devices.
Some devices, like TV cards, support one or more standards. It is possible
to list all the supported standards using @command{-list_standards all}.
-Some usage examples of the video4linux2 devices with ffmpeg and ffplay:
-
The time base for the timestamps is 1 microsecond. Depending on the kernel
version and configuration, the timestamps may be derived from the real time
clock (origin at the Unix Epoch) or the monotonic clock (origin usually at
@@ -608,8 +612,8 @@ boot time, unaffected by NTP or manual changes to the clock). The
@option{-timestamps abs} or @option{-ts abs} option can be used to force
conversion into the real time clock.
-Note that if FFmpeg is build with v4l-utils support ("--enable-libv4l2"
-option), it will always be used.
+Some usage examples of the video4linux2 devices with @command{ffmpeg}
+and @command{ffplay}:
@example
# Grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device.
ffplay -f video4linux2 -framerate 30 -video_size hd720 /dev/video0
@@ -619,8 +623,7 @@ 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
-"video4linux2".
+For more information about Video4Linux, check @url{http://linuxtv.org/}.
@section vfwcap