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Is that a Linux thing rather than being specific to Android ? V4L does a lot of camera stuff in userland.
by rjsw 8y ago
Is that a Linux thing rather than being specific to Android ? V4L does a lot of camera stuff in userland.
- izacus 8y agoAndroid doesn't really user V4L (at least not in most devices). Fact of the matter is that camera drivers are rather buggy on many devices and if you manage to crash the camera library or the kernel module, it'll most likely break other apps. You can of course blame that on Android, but pretty much no operating system will recover a device when the driver itself is broken and refuses to reset the device properly :)