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USB Video Class (UVC) is a USB specification which defines and standardizes video streaming functionality on the [[Universal Serial Bus]]. USB video streaming devices (which covers a broad spectrum of possible devices; such as webcams, digital camcorders, tv tuners, ... ) that are compliant to the UVC specification are referred to as "UVC devices". A primary benefit brought about by the UVC specification is that UVC compliant peripherals (i.e. "UVC devices") can all be managed by a single generic driver. Under Linux, UVC compliant devices are supported by (brace for it) the [http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ Linux UVC device driver] (which may also be referred to as linux-uvc or uvcvideo). |
USB Video Class (UVC) is a USB specification which defines and standardizes video streaming functionality on the [[Universal Serial Bus]]. USB video streaming devices (which is a classification that covers a broad spectrum of possible devices; such as webcams, digital camcorders, tv tuners, ... ) that are compliant to the UVC specification are referred to as "UVC devices". A primary benefit brought about by the UVC specification is that UVC compliant peripherals (i.e. "UVC devices") can all be managed by a single generic driver. Under Linux, UVC compliant devices are supported by (brace for it) the [http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ Linux UVC device driver] (which may also be referred to as linux-uvc or uvcvideo). |
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Revision as of 19:15, 29 January 2012
USB Video Class (UVC) is a USB specification which defines and standardizes video streaming functionality on the Universal Serial Bus. USB video streaming devices (which is a classification that covers a broad spectrum of possible devices; such as webcams, digital camcorders, tv tuners, ... ) that are compliant to the UVC specification are referred to as "UVC devices". A primary benefit brought about by the UVC specification is that UVC compliant peripherals (i.e. "UVC devices") can all be managed by a single generic driver. Under Linux, UVC compliant devices are supported by (brace for it) the Linux UVC device driver (which may also be referred to as linux-uvc or uvcvideo).