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From: Laurent Pinchart <>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Linux UVC driver available
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Cc: Fondriest Frédéric <>,
William Beebe <>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:16:32 +0100
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Hi everybody,
After a couple of months of preliminary development, I'm proud to announce the
creation of the Linux UVC project.
The goal of the project is to provide all necessary software components to
fully support UVC compliant devices in Linux. This include a V4L2 kernel
device driver and patches for user-space tools.
The USB Device Class Definition for Video Devices, or USB Video Class, defines
video streaming functionality on the Universal Serial Bus. Much like nearly
all mass storage devices (USB flash disks, external IDE disk enclosures, ...)
can be managed by a single driver because they conform to the USB Mass
Storage specification, UVC compliant peripherals only need a generic driver.
The UVC specification covers webcams, digital camcorders, analog video
converters, analog and digital television tuners, and still-image cameras
that support video streaming for both video input and output.
Due to the limited available man power and the broad scope of the UVC
specification, the Linux UVC project will concentrate the development efforts
on video input devices, especially webcams. Video output devices will be
considered at a later time.
Last but not least, you can find the project homepage at BerliOS :
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de. You will need a recent kernel (2.6.12, 2.6.14
and 2.6.15-rc5 have been tested).
Laurent Pinchart
PS: The mailing list on BerliOS has just been created and will not be
operational before a day or two, so please follow-up on the video4linux
mailing list until the end of the week.
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