On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

>> And what about video4linux?  I guess this is much more difficult, but I do 
>> not
>> really know and it can be added to the list anyway.
>
> I've actually looked at both in the past. Video4Linux is *much* easier than 
> ALSA I would say. Especially if you focus on v4l2, it is very well 
> documented.

Last time *I* checked this, there were almost no applications using
V4L2, everyone was using old V4L, although the API for V2 is quite
old now too.

-- 
Tom