Documentation:Modules/v4l2
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| Module: v4l2 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Access |
| First VLC version | 0.9.0 |
| Last VLC version | - |
| Operating system(s) | Linux |
| Description | Video for Linux 2 input |
| Module: v4l2 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Access Demux |
| First VLC version | 0.9.0 |
| Last VLC version | - |
| Operating system(s) | Linux |
| Description | Video for Linux 2 input |
Contents |
Options
- v4l2-caching <integer> : Caching in ms.
Video input
- v4l2-dev <string> : Primary device name. default value: "/dev/video0"
- v4l2-standard <integer> : Video standard. default value: 0
- v4l2-chroma <string> : Force use of a specific video chroma (Use MJPG here to use a webcam's MJPEG stream). default value: ""
- v4l2-input <integer> : Card input to use for video. default value: 0
- v4l2-audio-input <integer> : Card input to use for audio. default value: 0
- v4l2-io <integer> : IO method. default value: 0
- v4l2-width <integer> : Prefered video width (if non zero). default value: 0
- v4l2-height <integer> : Prefered video height (if non zero). default value: 0
- v4l2-fps <float> : Frames per second (if non zero). default value: 0
Audio input
These options do not apply to audio streams in compressed data.
- v4l2-adev <string> : Audio input device. default value: ""
- v4l2-audio-method <integer> : Allowed audio input methods (bitmask: 1 for OSS, 2 for ALSA). default value: 3
- v4l2-stereo : Capture audio in stereo. default value: enabled
- v4l2-samplerate <integer> : Audio input sample rate in Hz. default value: 48000
Tuner
- v4l2-tuner <integer> : Tuner to use. default value: 0
- v4l2-tuner-frequency <integer> : Tuner frequency in Hz or MHz depending on the underlying v4l2 driver. default value: -1
- v4l2-tuner-audio-mode <integer> : Tuner audio mode. default value: -1
Controls
These controls will be used only if they are supported by the v4l2 driver.
- v4l2-controls-reset : Reset all the v4l2 controls. default value: disabled
- v4l2-brightness <integer> : Brightness. default value: -1
- v4l2-contrast <integer> : Contrast. default value: -1
- v4l2-saturation <integer> : Saturation. default value: -1
- v4l2-hue <integer> : Hue. default value: -1
- v4l2-black-level <integer> : Black level. default value: -1
- v4l2-auto-white-balance <integer> : Auto white balance. default value: -1
- v4l2-do-white-balance <integer> : Do white balance. default value: -1
- v4l2-red-balance <integer> : Red balance. default value: -1
- v4l2-blue-balance <integer> : Blue balance. default value: -1
- v4l2-gamma <integer> : Gamma. default value: -1
- v4l2-exposure <integer> : Exposure. default value: -1
- v4l2-autogain <integer> : Auto gain. default value: -1
- v4l2-gain <integer> : Gain. default value: -1
- v4l2-hflip <integer> : Flip the image horizontaly. default value: -1
- v4l2-vflip <integer> : Flip the image verticaly. default value: -1
- v4l2-hcenter <integer> : Horizontal center. default value: -1
- v4l2-vcenter <integer> : Vertical center. default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-volume <integer> : Audio volume. default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-balance <integer> : Audio balance. default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-mute : Audio mute. default value: disabled
- v4l2-audio-bass <integer> : Audio bass. default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-treble <integer> : Audio treble. default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-loudness <integer> : Audio loudness. default value: -1
- v4l2-set-ctrls <string> : Set any other control listed in the debug output using a comma seperated list in curly braces such as {video_bitrate=6000000,audio_crc=0,stream_type=3}. default value: ""
Example
Open a video device with default settings:
% vlc v4l2:///dev/video0:width=640:height=480
Get information about a video device's capabilities:
% vlc -vvv --color v4l2:///dev/video0 --run-time 1 vlc://quit -I dummy -V dummy -A dummy
Command line for Hauppauge PVR 250 to get France 2 (at ECP) and encode as MPEG2 and stream using UDP multicast:
% vlc -I dummy -vvv 'v4l2c://:audio-method=0:controls-reset:set-ctrls={video_bitrate_mode=1,video_bitrate=4000000,video_peak_bitrate=4000000}:width=720:height=576:tuner=0:tuner-frequency=478550' --sout "#std{access=udp{ttl=12},mux=ts,url=239.255.1.1}"
Note: v4l2c is an alias used to force VLC to use the v4l2 module in it's Access variant without probing the Access Demux version first (the c stands for compressed).
See also
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