May be used with an unpatched kernel, or with a kernel patched with the UVC kernel patch. Additionally, configuration binaries are required.
Note that this plugin is optional and not necessary when using the raw capture device available with recent configuration binaries
The plugin is necessary for accessing the H.264-encoded stream and is not used with raw streams.
Needs libv4l2, including development headers for build (apt-get install libv4l-dev on Debian and derivatives).
Place the plugin .so built using 'make' into the distribution-specific libv4l plugin directory (/usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libv4l/plugins/ on Debian and derivatives).
You may need to LD_PRELOAD the libv4l/v4l1compat.so library (which should be included into your distribution, e.g. /usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libv4l/v4l1compat.so on Debian and derivatives) to have applications' V4L2 requests routed through the plugin system.