v4l-info(1)

💖 v4l-info(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the little command that spills ALL the tea about your video device ☕️✨

✨ NAME ✨

v4l-info — dump video4linux(2) device info to stdout 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

v4l-info [ device ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically v4l-info just prints the v4l(2) device info. that's it. that's the whole personality 💅 it calls lots of ioctls and dumps the results straight to stdout — no filter, no chill, just raw device lore fr fr.

it optionally accepts the device you wanna query. if you don't hand it one? default is /dev/video0 🫶

ngl, this was written to help debug drivers, so it's probably not that useful for end users... 😭 but hey, it's iconic anyway ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> 💜

that's the whole vibe, bestie — go forth and info-dump your video devices 🧚🌸

(c) Gerd Knorr — and this little page came to you from the General Commands Manual section of the v4l-info(1) era 🎀 mwah, ily, bye 💖