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From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Can a USB camera drive a display directly with no X/Wayland GUI?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:49:14 +0100
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
> 
:-)  it was an inadvertent paste that I didn't notice!

> > 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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Chris Green
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