/* # (C) 2008 Hans de Goede # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ #ifndef __LIBV4L2_H #define __LIBV4L2_H #include #include #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* __cplusplus */ #if __GNUC__ >= 4 #define LIBV4L_PUBLIC __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) #else #define LIBV4L_PUBLIC #endif /* Point this to a FILE opened for writing when you want to log error and status messages to a file, when NULL errors will get send to stderr */ LIBV4L_PUBLIC extern FILE *v4l2_log_file; /* Just like your regular open/close/etc, except that format conversion is done if necessary when capturing. That is if you (try to) set a capture format which is not supported by the cam, but is supported by libv4lconvert, then the try_fmt / set_fmt will succeed as if the cam supports the format and on dqbuf / read the data will be converted for you and returned in the request format. Another difference is that you can make v4l2_read() calls even on devices which do not support the regular read() method. Note that libv4l2 normally does not interfere with enum_fmt, so enum_fmt will still return the actual formats the hardware supports, and not any formats which may be emulated on top of that. If you pass the V4L2_ENABLE_ENUM_FMT_EMULATION flag to v4l2_fd_open (as the v4l2convert.so wrapper does) then enum_fmt will also report support for the formats to which conversion is possible. Note the device name passed to v4l2_open must be of a video4linux2 device, if it is anything else (including a video4linux1 device), v4l2_open will fail. */ LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_open (const char *file, int oflag, ...); LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_close(int fd); LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_dup(int fd); LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_ioctl (int fd, unsigned long int request, ...); LIBV4L_PUBLIC ssize_t v4l2_read (int fd, void* buffer, size_t n); LIBV4L_PUBLIC void *v4l2_mmap(void *start, size_t length, int prot, int flags, int fd, __off64_t offset); LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_munmap(void *_start, size_t length); /* Misc utility functions */ /* This function takes a value of 0 - 65535, and then scales that range to the actual range of the given v4l control id, and then if the cid exists and is not locked sets the cid to the scaled value. Normally returns 0, even if the cid did not exist or was locked, returns non 0 when an other error occured. */ LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_set_control(int fd, int cid, int value); /* This function returns a value of 0 - 65535, scaled to from the actual range of the given v4l control id. when the cid does not exist, could not be accessed for some reason, or some error occured 0 is returned. */ LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_get_control(int fd, int cid); /* "low level" access functions, these functions allow somewhat lower level access to libv4l2 (currently there only is v4l2_fd_open here) */ /* Flags for v4l2_fd_open's v4l2_flags argument */ /* Disable all format conversion done by libv4l2 (reduces libv4l2 functionality to offering v4l2_read() even on devices which don't implement read()) */ #define V4L2_DISABLE_CONVERSION 0x01 /* Report not only real but also emulated formats with the ENUM_FMT ioctl */ #define V4L2_ENABLE_ENUM_FMT_EMULATION 02 /* v4l2_fd_open: open an already opened fd for further use through v4l2lib and possibly modify libv4l2's default behavior through the v4l2_flags argument. Returns fd on success, -1 if the fd is not suitable for use through libv4l2 (note the fd is left open in this case). */ LIBV4L_PUBLIC int v4l2_fd_open(int fd, int v4l2_flags); #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif /* __cplusplus */ #endif