/usr/share/doc/libunicap2/README is in libunicap2 0.9.12-2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 | unicap is a library to access different kinds of ( video ) capture
devices.
It uses a .so loading mechanism for the device layers so new device
drivers can easily be added.
unicap provides a simple yet flexible and powerfull API. The capture
application is able to access very different kinds of capture devices
and set all of their properties ( such as brightness/contrast... )
without the exact knowledge of the device.
Currently unicap provides support for IIDC cameras, video-4-linux,
video-4-linux-2 and video-to-firewire converters.
/Arne Caspari <arne@unicap-imaging.org>
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REQUIREMENTS:
* Gtk+ 2.0 or newer for libunicapgtk
* libraw1394 0.10.0 or newer for dcam or vid21394 plugins
QUICKSTART:
* Have a look at the examples subdirectory!
Note: Currently the examples expect the device to deliver UYVY
color format
* run the sdl_display example at first to see if you can get a live
video with your video capture device
EXAMPLES:
Note: unicap needs to be installed with 'make install' to be able to
compile these examples
* sdl_display: Display a live video image using the SDL library
* xv_display: Displays a live video image using the Xv extension of
the X server. This example comes in it's own .tar.gz
archive and has it's own configure script. Untar the
xv_display-x.y.z.tar.gz file in any directory after
installing unicap and run the usual
'./configure && make'
* device_info: Lists all devices and properties. Use this to get an
idea how properties ( ie. brightnes, contrast etc )
work.
* unicapgtk_*: These examples use the GTK+ widget.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
* v4l and v4l2 support is rudimentary. Tuners are currently not
supported.
* Time stamping might be inaccurate, depending on the plugin used to
access the device
QUESTIONS / FEEDBACK:
Provide feedback about working / not working devices and patches
Please contact me at arne@unicap-imaging.org
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