Capture and control API for IIDC compliant cameras
...Besides capture and control, libdc1394 provides a full set of colour space conversion functions (including RAW decoding), vendor specific functions and direct camera register access.
Keywords: ieee1394, IIDC, DCAM, firewire, USB, machine vision, computer vision, video capture, library
V4L2 Virtual Device is a driver providing one or multiple video pipes. It is used to route the output of a user space video source application to typical video “consuming” applications (players, encoders, PVRs) that are compatible with v4l2 devices.