[CentOS] libv4l question

m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:53:48 -0000

Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hey I'm trying to do some web cam stuff, and I found this link:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libv4l/releases/333037
>
> I was doing the "rpm -qa | grep v4l" and nothing comes up,
> I did "ls path_to_centos/RPMS/* | grep v4l " and nothing comes
up,
> I did 'yum provides "*/libv4l*"' and nothing comes up.
>
> Is the CentOS library for v4l named something different?
> Is this library something I can just grab and compile and "help"
with my
> v4l efforts?
> Do I not need this library at all?
> I'm using 5.6 x86_64.
>
> Just a little confused at the moment.

We use gspca (the drivers) and motion.

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