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27.Dd September 20, 2011
28.Dt UVIDEO 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm uvideo
32.Nd USB video device driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "uvideo* at uhub?"
35.Cd "video* at videobus?"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver provides support for
40.Tn USB
41video class devices.
42.Pp
43A
44.Tn USB
45video device consists of a number of components.
46Every device has one control interface.
47Each device optionally provides streaming interfaces (input or output).
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr usb 4 ,
50.Xr video 4 ,
51.Xr video 9
52.Rs
53.%T "USB Approved Class Specification Documents"
54.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/
55.Re
56.Sh AUTHORS
57.An Patrick Mahoney Aq Mt pat@polycrystal.org
58.Sh BUGS
59Does not support all of UVC spec.
60Only supports the one streaming input interface.
61Does not support the interrupt endpoint for some controls.
62.Pp
63Exports the Video4Linux2 API via
64.Xr video 9 ,
65and V4L2 lacks support for some UVC features such as still images.
66