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| author |   Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> | 2008-10-18 14:51:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> | 2008-10-18 14:51:14 +0000 |
| commit | 914e7ef56c195ec48a120e8738bf0043b9f3672c (patch) | |
| tree | 6c9856e5ccce9ca8eed5444b78669a1fe3baec78 /media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml | |
| parent | ia64 stable (diff) | |
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Initial import, ebuild by Alexandre Rostovtsev tetromino@gmail.com who will proxy maintin it, bug #240090
Package-Manager: portage-2.2_rc12/cvs/Linux 2.6.26.6 x86_64
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diff --git a/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml b/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..78efe127636a --- /dev/null +++ b/media-libs/libv4l/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>media-tv</herd> + <maintainer> + <email>aballier@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Alexis Ballier</name> + </maintainer> + <maintainer> + <email>tetromino@gmail.com</email> + <name>Alexandre Rostovtsev</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> + libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on + top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it + easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without + having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. + + libv4l consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2. + + libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixelformat + to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420. + + libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent + of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many + v4l2 drivers do not). + + libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the + application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> + |