question about how v4l2src gets supported capture device formats

[David Röthlisberger]

On 4 Feb 2013, at 21:56, Chuck Crisler wrote:
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> Thank you. Where can I find [libv4l2] library, or a tarball of the source?

http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/libv4l.html
http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git

> Found it. It is installed on my system but for some reason pkg-config doesn't seem to know about it. Guess I need a devel version.

On Fedora, at least, libv4l2.so and libv4lconvert.so are installed by the package "libv4l", and yes indeed, there's a "libv4l-devel". :-)