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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-06-08 10:36:16 +0200
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-06-08 10:36:49 +0200
commitecb65812765bfbc0def42cdb30eca31fe0fcffd3 (patch)
tree6d0bca197443ce16d749d0d8c1001966086f57ad /gnu/packages/linux.scm
parentfdcd193744dbb92d3478c8e4e6c4f4336a872831 (diff)
gnu: v4l2loopback-linux-module: Edit synopsis and description.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (v4l2loopback-linux-module) [synopsis, description]: Edit.
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@@ -1150,14 +1150,16 @@ supported under @file{/sys/class/backlight/}.")
1150 "1qi4l6yam8nrlmc3zwkrz9vph0xsj1cgmkqci4652mbpbzigg7vn")))) 1150 "1qi4l6yam8nrlmc3zwkrz9vph0xsj1cgmkqci4652mbpbzigg7vn"))))
1151 (build-system linux-module-build-system) 1151 (build-system linux-module-build-system)
1152 (home-page "https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback") 1152 (home-page "https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback")
1153 (synopsis "Linux kernel module that allows you to create \"virtual video devices\"") 1153 (synopsis "Linux kernel module to create virtual V4L2 video devices")
1154 (description "This module allows you to create \"virtual video devices\" 1154 (description
1155normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary 1155 "This Linux module creates virtual video devices. @acronym{V4L2, Video
1156video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but 1156for Linux 2} applications will treat these as ordinary video devices but read
1157instead it is generated by another application. this allows you for instance 1157video data generated by another application, instead of a hardware device such
1158to apply some nifty video effects on your Jitsi video... it also allows some 1158as a capture card.
1159more serious things (e.g. using it to add streaming capabilities to an 1159
1160application by the means of hooking GStreamer into the loopback devices).") 1160This lets you apply nifty effects to your Jitsi video, for example, but also
1161allows some more serious things like adding streaming capabilities to an
1162application by hooking GStreamer into the loopback device.")
1161 (license license:gpl2+))) 1163 (license license:gpl2+)))
1162 1164
1163 1165