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authorSimon Harrison <si1356@yahoo.co.uk>2009-01-09 07:07:07 -0500
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2009-01-29 05:35:37 -0500
commitf90c3c0bdd7a3f16eecf1b077f5e031c44ddb605 (patch)
treeb7300b97e8e6f44fa63e588a9bce9a9f32e427e6 /Documentation
parent3e478c06e83efc365e8351bff7b4c569f22e642d (diff)
V4L/DVB (10210): Fix a bug on v4lgrab.c
v4lgrab breaks the fputc macro on some systems, because of #defined FILE. Also, I also added comments because it was not at all clear that to get gspca cameras to work with this application you need v4l1compat. Signed-off-by: Simon Harrison <si1356@yahoo.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c25
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c b/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
index 079b628481cf..d6e70bef8ad0 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4lgrab.c
@@ -4,12 +4,21 @@
4 * 4 *
5 * Compile with: 5 * Compile with:
6 * gcc -s -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes v4lgrab.c -o v4lgrab 6 * gcc -s -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes v4lgrab.c -o v4lgrab
7 * Use as: 7 * Use as:
8 * v4lgrab >image.ppm 8 * v4lgrab >image.ppm
9 * 9 *
10 * Copyright (C) 1998-05-03, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> 10 * Copyright (C) 1998-05-03, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
11 * Copied from http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/vgrabber.c 11 * Copied from http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/vgrabber.c
12 * with minor modifications (Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu). 12 * with minor modifications (Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu).
13 *
14 *
15 * For some cameras you may need to pre-load libv4l to perform
16 * the necessary decompression, e.g.:
17 *
18 * export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
19 * ./v4lgrab >image.ppm
20 *
21 * see http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html for details.
13 * 22 *
14 */ 23 */
15 24
@@ -24,7 +33,7 @@
24#include <linux/types.h> 33#include <linux/types.h>
25#include <linux/videodev.h> 34#include <linux/videodev.h>
26 35
27#define FILE "/dev/video0" 36#define VIDEO_DEV "/dev/video0"
28 37
29/* Stole this from tvset.c */ 38/* Stole this from tvset.c */
30 39
@@ -90,7 +99,7 @@ int get_brightness_adj(unsigned char *image, long size, int *brightness) {
90 99
91int main(int argc, char ** argv) 100int main(int argc, char ** argv)
92{ 101{
93 int fd = open(FILE, O_RDONLY), f; 102 int fd = open(VIDEO_DEV, O_RDONLY), f;
94 struct video_capability cap; 103 struct video_capability cap;
95 struct video_window win; 104 struct video_window win;
96 struct video_picture vpic; 105 struct video_picture vpic;
@@ -100,13 +109,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)
100 unsigned int i, src_depth; 109 unsigned int i, src_depth;
101 110
102 if (fd < 0) { 111 if (fd < 0) {
103 perror(FILE); 112 perror(VIDEO_DEV);
104 exit(1); 113 exit(1);
105 } 114 }
106 115
107 if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGCAP, &cap) < 0) { 116 if (ioctl(fd, VIDIOCGCAP, &cap) < 0) {
108 perror("VIDIOGCAP"); 117 perror("VIDIOGCAP");
109 fprintf(stderr, "(" FILE " not a video4linux device?)\n"); 118 fprintf(stderr, "(" VIDEO_DEV " not a video4linux device?)\n");
110 close(fd); 119 close(fd);
111 exit(1); 120 exit(1);
112 } 121 }