Jerry Geis wrote:

Hi all,

Hey I'm trying to do some web cam stuff, and I found this link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libv4l/releases/333037

I was doing the "rpm -qa | grep v4l" and nothing comes up, I did "ls path_to_centos/RPMS/* | grep v4l " and nothing comes up, I did 'yum provides "*/libv4l*"' and nothing comes up.

Is the CentOS library for v4l named something different? Is this library something I can just grab and compile and "help" with my v4l efforts? Do I not need this library at all? I'm using 5.6 x86_64.

Just a little confused at the moment.

We use gspca (the drivers) and motion.

mark

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

Hi all,

Hey I'm trying to do some web cam stuff, and I found this link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libv4l/releases/333037

I was doing the "rpm -qa | grep v4l" and nothing comes up, I did "ls path_to_centos/RPMS/* | grep v4l " and nothing comes up, I did 'yum provides "*/libv4l*"' and nothing comes up.

Is the CentOS library for v4l named something different? Is this library something I can just grab and compile and "help" with my v4l efforts? Do I not need this library at all? I'm using 5.6 x86_64.

It may not be in the default repository but you could try getting it from another one (ATrpms, RPM Fusion, etc) or compiling it manually.

http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el5/libv4l/