%general-entities; ]> v4l-utils v4l-utils provides a series of utilities for media devices, allowing the ability to handle the proprietary formats available from most webcams (libv4l), and providing tools to test V4L devices. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &v4l-md5sum; Download size: &v4l-size; Estimated disk space required: &v4l-buildsize; Estimated build time: &v4l-time; v4l-utils Dependencies Recommended , , , and &qt5-deps; Optional , , both (with Clang and target BPF) and libbpf (for infrared remote control decoders based on BPF), and SDL_image If you've installed both LLVM and libbpf (not in BLFS), either enable the BPF target (via -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=) building LLVM, or disable the infrared remote control decoders based on BPF: sed '/^ir_bpf_enabled/s/=.*/= false/' \ -i utils/keytable/meson.build Install v4l-utils by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ -Ddoxygen-doc=disabled \ -Dgconv=disabled \ --buildtype=release .. && ninja This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: ninja install If you also wish to install the contrib programs, add: for prog in v4l2gl v4l2grab do cp -v contrib/test/$prog /usr/bin done -Dgconv=disabled: This switch disables the erroneous installation of gconv-modules that would break glibc. Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories cec-compliance, cec-ctl, cec-follower, cx18-ctl, decode_tm6000, dvb-fe-tool, dvb-format-convert, dvbv5-daemon, dvbv5-scan, dvbv5-zap, ir-ctl, ir-keytable, ivtv-ctl, media-ctl, qv4l2, qvidcap, rds-ctl, v4l2-compliance, v4l2-ctl, v4l2-dbg, v4l2gl, v4l2grab, and v4l2-sysfs-path libdvbv5.so, libv4l1.so, libv4l2.so, libv4l2rds.so, libv4lconvert.so, v4l1compat.so, and v4l2convert.so /etc/rc_keymaps, /lib/udev/rc_keymaps, /usr/include/libdvbv5, and /usr/lib/libv4l Short Descriptions cx18-ctl is a tool to handle cx18 based devices cx18-ctl decode_tm6000 decodes multiplexed formats from TM5600/TM6000 USB devices decode_tm6000 dvb-fe-tool is a command line tool for digital TV services dvb-fe-tool dvb-format-convert is a tool meant to convert among different file formats. It is compliant with version 5 of the DVB API dvb-format-convert dvbv5-scan is a command line frequency scanning tool for digital TV services that are compliant with version 5 of the DVB API dvbv5-scan dvbv5-zap is a command line tuning tool for digital TV services that is compliant with version 5 of the DVB API dvbv5-zap ir-keytable is a tool that lists the Remote Controller devices, allows one to get/set IR keycode/scancode tables, test events generated by IR, and to adjust other Remote Controller options ir-keytable ivtv-ctl is a utility that can control many card settings, like changing the inputs from tuner to svideo or composite, setting video resolution or changing video mode (PAL, SECAM, NTSC) ivtv-ctl media-ctl is a utility used to configure V4L2 devices media-ctl qv4l2 is used to test video4linux capture devices qv4l2 qvidcap is used to capture video from a V4L2 device qvidcap rds-ctl is a utility for decoding raw RDS data from V4L2 Radio devices and offers simple ways to access the received RDS information rds-ctl v4l2-compliance is a compliance test tool v4l2-compliance v4l2-ctl is a tool to control v4l2 controls from the cmdline v4l2-ctl v4l2-dbg is a tool to directly get and set registers of v4l2 devices v4l2-dbg v4l2gl captures images using libv4l and stores them as PPM files v4l2gl v4l2grab captures images using libv4l and stores them as PPM files, while also allowing for additional options such as setting the amount of frames captured and saving the file as a RAW file v4l2grab v4l2-sysfs-path checks the media devices installed on a machine and the corresponding device nodes v4l2-sysfs-path