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.Dd September 20, 2011
.Dt UVIDEO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm uvideo
.Nd USB video device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "uvideo* at uhub?"
.Cd "video* at videobus?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for
.Tn USB
video class devices.
.Pp
A
.Tn USB
video device consists of a number of components.
Every device has one control interface.
Each device optionally provides streaming interfaces (input or output).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr usb 4 ,
.Xr video 4 ,
.Xr video 9
.Rs
.%T "USB Approved Class Specification Documents"
.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/
.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Patrick Mahoney Aq Mt pat@polycrystal.org
.Sh BUGS
Does not support all of UVC spec.
Only supports the one streaming input interface.
Does not support the interrupt endpoint for some controls.
.Pp
Exports the Video4Linux2 API via
.Xr video 9 ,
and V4L2 lacks support for some UVC features such as still images.