Video4Linux Programming

Alan Cox

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Radio Devices
Registering Radio Devices
Opening And Closing The Radio
The Ioctl Interface
Module Wrapper
3. Video Capture Devices
Video Capture Device Types
Registering Video Capture Devices
Opening And Closing The Capture Device
Interrupt Handling
Reading The Video Image
Video Ioctl Handling
Other Functionality
4. Known Bugs And Assumptions
5. Public Functions Provided