Re: Can a USB camera drive a display directly with no X/Wayland GUI?

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

As per the subject I want to use a USB camera with a SA15 Pi

SA15 Pi? I haven't heard of that one.

and have
it drive a display (HDMI presumably) directly.  The Pi I'm aiming to
use just has the Lite version of the OS so there's no desktop/GUI
available, just the command line.
 
Is this possible?

Mplayer supports output to fbdev, which should work for that if
HDMI works for displaying the Linux terminal command line over
HDMI on your "SA15 Pi":
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/fbdev.html

I'm not sure about Ffplay, the man page only describes using fbdev
for input, not output.

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