= Stop using Video4Linux version 1 =
== Goal description ==

!Video4Linux version 1 (!V4L1) was obsoleted in the kernel by version 2 (!V4L2) some years ago and newer video capture drivers do not support !V4L1. Applications should all be using !V4L2. There is a library (libv4l) that can aid in converting applications that were written for !V4L1. Fedora has patched a number of applications to use this.

See Fedora's [[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport|better webcam support]] goal.

== Current status ==

 * Unknown status of this goal, more details are needed

There is a cross-distribution [[http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Libv4l_Progress|overview of applications]].

In Debian, I started with the list of packages found with: {{{grep-aptavail -FDescription -sPackage -i -e 'webcam|v4l' | sort}}}

You could also search for a !V4L1 API call like VIDIOCGCAP: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5CbVIDIOCGCAP

||Package||API||Comment||
||DebianPkg:aatv|| ||Uses !V4L1 -[[DebianBug:569094|#569094]]||
||DebianPkg:arista|| ||False positive?||
||DebianPkg:came|| ||Used !V4L1 - removed||
||DebianPkg:cameramonitor|| ||Uses other programs||
||DebianPkg:camorama|| ||Uses !V4L1 - [[DebianBug:|#569089]]||
||DebianPkg:camserv|| ||Uses !V4L1 - [[DebianBug:569097|#569097]]||
||DebianPkg:camstream|| ||Uses !V4L1 - fixed to use libv4l1||
||DebianPkg:camstream-doc|| ||False positive||
||DebianPkg:cheese||gstreamer|| ||
||DebianPts:chromium-browser|| || ||
||[[DebianPkg:src:dov4l]]||V4L1|| ||
||[[DebianPkg:src:dv4l]]||V4L1||Preloadable library to access FireWire devices.||
||DebianPkg:dvsource|| ||Uses dvgrab||
||[[DebianPkg:src:feh]]||f||False positive||
||DebianPts:empathy||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:ekiga||libpt / opal|| ||
||DebianPkg:firmware-ivtv|| ||False positive||
||DebianPkg:fswebcam||!V4L2||Carries a patch to correct videodev includes||
||DebianPts:gambas3||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:gegl||!V4L1||Code is deactivated by configure.ac check for (now non-existing) videodev.h ||
||DebianPts:gem||libv4l1|| ||
||DebianPkg:gkrellkam||f||False positive||
||DebianPkg:gmotionlive||f||False positive||
||DebianPkg:gqcam||r||Uses !V4L1 - [[DebianBug:569099|#569099]]||
||DebianPts:gspca||r||V4L driver - removed from archive in [[DebianBug:519463|#519463]]||
||DebianPts:hal||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:italc||!V4L2|| this code is inside of an embedded copy of x11vnc ||
||DebianPkg:kdetv||r||Uses !V4L2, removed||
||DebianPts:kdenetwork||libv4l2|| ||
||DebianPkg:kmplayer||r||removed||
||DebianPkg:kradio||r||Uses !V4L1 but only for radio, removed||
||[[DebianPkg:src:libdecodeqr]||opencv|| ||
||DebianPts:libexplain||f||This library tries to explain syscall error reasons. V4L API is not used actively||
||[[DebianPkg:src:libmimic]]||f||False positive||
||[[DebianPkg:libv4l-ruby1.8]]|| ||Uses !V4L1 - removed||
||DebianPkg:libvideo-capture-v4l-perl|| ||Used !V4L1 - fixed to use libv4l1||
||DebianPkg:libvideo-ivtv-perl|| ||Specific to ivtv||
||[[DebianPkg:src:libwebcam]]||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:libphone||libv4l2|| ||
||DebianPkg:luvcview||libv4l2||Carries a patch for videodev2.h and libv4l2||
||[[DebianPkg:lynkeos.app]]||libav|| ||
||[[DebianPkg:src:minbif]]||f|| False positive. Might use libpidgin for V4L access||
||DebianPkg:mjpegtools||!V4L2|| configure.ac checks only for videodev.h presence. Todo: file bug with patch ||
||DebianPkg:motion||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:mplayer||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPts:mplayer2||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPkg:network-manager||f||False positive||
||DebianPkg:ov51x-jpeg-source||r||V4L driver - dead upstream, removed from testing due to [[DebianBug:530805|#530805]]||
||DebianPkg:peercast-geekast||r||? - removed in DebianBug:569836||
||DebianPts:player||libv4l1|| ||
||DebianPts:ptlib||libv4l2|| ||
||DebianPkg:qc-usb-source|| ||!V4L1 driver, superseded by in-tree gspca_stv06xx driver (!V4L2 port) - [[DebianBug:524112|#524112]]||
||DebianPkg:qc-usb-utils|| ||Specific to qc-usb||
||[[DebianPkg:src:sane-backends]]||libv4l1|| ||
||DebianPkg:setpwc|| ||Specific to pwc (?)||
||[[DebianPkg:src:telak]]||f||False positive||
||DebianPts:telico||libv4l1|| ||
||DebianPts:transcode||!V4L2|| ||
||[[DebianPkg:src:uvccapture]]||!V4L2||Carries a patch to include videodev2.h instead of videodev.h||
||[[DebianPkg:src:v4l2ucp]]||!V4L2||Carries a patch for videodev2.h||
||[[DebianPkg:src:v4l-utils]]||!V4L2||Provides translation layer from !V4L1 to !V4L2 and corrects upside down Webcams||
||[[DebianPkg:src:vgrabbj]]||libv4l1||[[DebianBug:569092|#569092]]||
||[[DebianPkg:src:webcamd]]||v4lctl||Uses v4lctl binary from xawtv||
||DebianPkg:webcam-server||r||Used !V4L1 - removed||
||DebianPts:wine||libv4l1||Loaded via dlopen||
||[[DebianPkg:src:xawtv]]||libv4l2||Uses !V4L1 - [[DebianBug:644761|#644761]]||
||DebianPts:xine-lib-1.2||libv4l2|| ||
||[[DebianPkg:src:xfce4-radio-plugin]]||!V4L2|| ||
||DebianPkg:xserver-xorg-video-v4l||!V4L1||Uses !V4L1 - [[DebianBug:569103|#569103]]||
||[[DebianPkg:src:zbar]]||libv4l2||Carries a patch for libv4l support||
||DebianPts:zvbi||!V4L2|| ||

== How to help ==

 * Report bugs on packages using !V4L1
 * Fix the bugs

== Next Milestone ==