debian man page for v4l

V4L(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    V4L(4)

NAME
       v4l - video4linux driver

SYNOPSIS
       Section "Module"
	 ...
	 Load "v4l"
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION
       v4l  is	an  Xorg  driver for video4linux cards.  It provides a Xvideo extension port for video overlay.  Just add the driver to the module
       list within the module section of your xorg.conf file if you want to use it.  There are no config options.

       Note that the extmod module is also required for the Xvideo support (and lots of other extensions too).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE
       The v4l driver works with every piece of hardware which is supported by a video4linux (kernel-) device driver and is able to  handle  video
       overlay.

       bt848/bt878-based TV cards are the most popular hardware these days.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS
       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.	This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

SEE ALSO
       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), xorgconfig(1), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS
       Authors include: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

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