September 21, 2008 UVIDEO 4

### NAME

uvideo - USB video device driver

### SYNOPSIS

uvideo* at uhub? video* at videobus?

### DESCRIPTION

The uvideo driver provides support for USB video class devices.

A USB video device consists of a number of components. Every device has one control interface. Each device optionally provides streaming interfaces (input or output).

### SEE ALSO

The USB Specifications can be found at: ```http://www.usb.org/developers/docs.html`

video(4), video(9)

### AUTHORS

Patrick Mahoney <pat@polycrystal.org>

### BUGS

Does not support all of UVC spec. Only supports the one streaming input interface. Does not support the interrupt endpoint for some controls.

Exports the Video4Linux2 API via video(9), and V4L2 lacks support for some UVC features such as still images.