The purpose of this page is to communicate information about the various V4L2 related projects in progress around the world, and bring together the people working on the projects with those who are interested in the work, who are seeking drivers or applications, or who are working on related projects.
| Device | Who | Links and Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ATI Graphics Cards | Octavian Purdila, et al purdila@sundy.cs.pub.ro |
Octavian is part of the GATOS group and he is working on a V4L2 driver
for ATI graphics cards. Also in the GATOS group are Vladimir Dergachev,
Oyvind Aabling, Stea Greene, Chris Hardy, Bernardo Cardosso, Christian
Lupien. http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ |
| Bt848- and Bt878-based cards | Justin Schoeman justin@suntiger.ee.up.ac.za |
The V4L2 driver for these popular cards. There are a lot of variations
of these types of cards, so try it out on your system, and send a message
to Justin about your results. Thanks. http://bttv-v4l2.sourceforge.net/ |
| C-Cube Ziva | Michael Morrison mike@ringo.reno.nv.us |
Mike is a software engineer working on standard and HD digital video disk recorders. For V4L2 he is investigating DVD playback support, and is currently seeking information about Sigma Designs Hollywood+ card http://www.sigmadesigns.com/hollywoodplus.html , and/or the C-Cube Ziva MPEG-2 decoder chip http://www.c-cube.com |
| Creative Webcam II | Mailing list vision-webcam@errors.no |
Drivers are being made for USB and PPC2 Vision CPiA based cameras. |
| Data Translation DT3153 | Luís Alberto Lucas lalucas@daeln.cefetpr.br |
Driver port in progress. Contact the author for more information. |
| Iomega Buz | Dave Perks dperks@ibm.net Gernot Ziegler gz@lysator.liu.se |
Dave created the Iomega Buz drivers, and is now porting them
to V4L2. Gernot is managing the Iomega Buz on Linux software projects. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/buz |
| Linux DVD | LiViD | The LiVid Project. http://www.linuxvideo.org/ |
| Linux Media Labs LML33 (card) | Vassili Leonov vleo@pcisys.net |
Vassili is making available for sale an MJPEG video capture card
for Linux, with open specifications and GPL drivers. The company is called
Linux Media Labs, and the board is the LML33. http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/ |
| LML33 (driver) | Matt Gundry mjgundry@faa-engineers.com |
Matt is writing drivers for the LML33 for video capture, compression and output. See above. |
| Matrox Marvel G200 /Rainbow Runner | Eddie Galvez eddie@brandeis.edu |
Eddie has created the portal site for Marvel on V4L2!
http://marvel.sourceforge.net/ |
| Matrox Meteor | Olivier Carmona carmona@k-team.com |
Olivier has created V4L2 Matrox Meteor drivers. http://www.k-team.com/software/v4l2.html |
| Matrox Meteor II | Cord Seele cs@emlix.com |
Cord is working on V4L2 drivers for the Meteor II family. http://www.emlix.com/meteor2 |
| National Semiconductor Geode Family CPU TV Set-Top Systems | Linux4.TV |
Complete open-source set-top box system software from National and Century Embedded Technologies.
Geode-based development systems are available. http://www.linux4.tv/ http://www.national.com/ |
| National Semiconductor Geode Family CPU | Shaun Savage shaun@igel.de |
Adding Geode support to kernel 2.4 for CPU detection, frame buffer,
i2c, vbi and video. http://v4l2.infomatec-ias.com/ |
| Philips SAA7146-based hardware | Michael Hunold michael@mihu.de |
Michael has written a generic V4L2-driver-core that provides easy
access to any saa7146 in the system via V4L2. The package currently includes two so-called 'extensions', e.g. the actual 'front-ends' to the real hardware: 'Multimedia eXtension Board' ('MXB') (a tv-card by Siemens-Nixdorf, quite popular in Germany) and 'dpc7146' , a demonstration-board by Philips Semiconductors. Comprehensive informations about saa7146-based hardware can be found on his homepage. http://www.mihu.de/linux/ |
| Pictioneers P400/P400HC | Ted Herring ted@pictioneers.com |
Pictioneers P400 is a 4-port Conexant 878A (BT848
compatible) MJPEG video capture card. V4L/V4L2 drivers written for the
BT848 chipset will work with this card, also works with dvr.sourceforge.net
application. The P400HC is under development, scheduled for release
November 2001, and is a 4-port hardware compression-based MJPEG video
capture card (ZR36060 chipset). Pictioneers will be releasing an open
source V4L2 driver for the P400HC. http://www.pictioneers.com/ |
| TV500 | Steve Barbo barbo@umrtv.uc.umn.edu |
http://umrtv.uc.umn.edu/~barbo/tv500.html |
| Winnov Videum ISA, PCI | Bill Dirks bdirks@pacbell.net |
This driver works with all Winnov Videum ISA and PCI cards
and the Philips EasyVideo card. An OSS audio driver is also available.
http://www.thedirks.org/winnov/ |
| Winnov VideumCam Traveler PCMCIA | Doe-Wan Kim dwkim@isi.edu |
Driver for the Winnov VideumCam Traveler PCMCIA camera.
Orginally developed at University of Michigan.
More recent workd done at Information Sciences Institute / USC http://www.thedirks.org/winnov/ |
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| SANE (scanner interface) |
Conrad Parker conradp@cse.unsw.edu.au John Ferlito johnf@inodes.org |
Conrad and John, in an incredible feat of midnight engineering, have
created a SANE backend that uses the V4L2 API, which makes your video capture
card look like a scanner. What this means is you can capture images from
a video capture card using any program that can get images from a scanner,
for example, the GIMP, and scanimage. http://www.inodes.org/sane-v4l2/ |
| Project | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| DirectFB | dok@directfb.org |
DirectFB supports V4L2 devices as Video Providers for the display. http://www.directfb.org/ |
| Justin's V4L2 Utilities | Justin Schoeman justin@suntiger.ee.up.ac.za |
Some cool V4L2 applications, and a patch to AleVT to allow it to use streaming
capture for VBI. http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/v4l2 |
| Xawtv | Gerd Knorr kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de |
Gerd has ported the famous xawtv TV viewing application to
V4L2. http://www.strusel007.de/linux/xawtv/index.html |
| Zapping | Zapping Maintainers zapping-misc@lists.sourceforge.net |
A great TV viewer for the Gnome environment. Advanced VBI decoder. Lirc (infrared)
support. Realtime MPEG recording. And more...
http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ |
| MainActor | Main Concept (Markus Moenig) markusm@mainconcept.de |
Main Concept is a German software company that has written a video
editing application called MainActor. MainActor is available for
Windows, OS/2 and Linux. [1-22-03: Seems to be only Windows now.] http://www.mainconcept.com/ |
| RealProducer | RealNetworks (Axel Muhr) muhr@real.com |
RealNetworks has ported their RealProducer streaming audio/video
encoder to Linux. It uses the v4l API, but it can stream live video from
a V4L2 device thanks to the V4L2's backward compatibility layer. http://www.real.com/ |
| Improv | Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com |
Improv is a tool for basic real time image processing with
low resolution, e.g. suitable for mobile robots. http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~braunl/improv/ |
| vic | Jean-Marc Orliaguet jmo@medialab.chalmers.se |
Jean-Marc is maintaining the Linux patches for the vic video conferencing
tool.
http://www.medialab.chalmers.se/people/jmo/devel/vic/v4l2.html and see also this vic site. |
| Linux Media Interface Library | Bill Miller wjmjr@eden.rutgers.edu |
Bill is starting a project called the Linux Media Interface Library
to create a high-level C++ library over V4L2 for handling multimedia streams,
both live streams, and streams stored in files. Get the details at http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~wjmjr |
| CROW | Eric Fry eric@atu.com.au |
Eric is working on a non-linear editing (NLE) application called CROW. He has been working on it for quite a while, and it has a lot of capability already. He is seeking people to collaborate on further development. More information and screenshots at http://www.crow.atu.com.au/ |
| Splice | Chris Harshman harshman1@aol.com |
Chris is interested in writing a non-linear editing (NLE) application for Linux using V4L2, which he is calling Splice. He is seeking assistance. See http://paradigm.uor.edu/~harshman/linux/splice.html |
| matterial | Carlos Carnero matterial@mail.com |
Carlos is designing a professional video compositing application,
codename: matterial. He is seeking help with this project. http://matterial.sourceforge.net/ |
| Mark Podlipec podlipec@baynetworks.com |
Mark wrote the XAnim video and animation file player software. He is now working on a new player architecture, and considering how to integrate it with the V4L2 library and driver APIs. | |
| Rene Mueller kiwi@the-labs.com |
Rene is interested in creating a file format for capturing and editing videos on Linux, and getting some basic record, play, and edit tools written. Later some more full-featured tools. http://the-labs.com/VideoLab/ |
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