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+AVLD - Another Video Loopback Device
+
+Version : 0.1.4
+
+AVLD is a V4L dummy video device built to simulate an input video device like a webcam or a video 
+capture card. You just have to send the video stream on it (using, for instance, mplayer or ffmpeg), 
+that's all. Then, you can use this device by watching the video on it with your favorite video player. But, 
+one of the most useful interest, is obviously to use it with a VideoConferencing software to show a video 
+over internet. According to the software you are using, you could also be able to capture your screen in 
+realtime. A third interest, and maybe not the last one, could be to use it with an image processing (or 
+other) software which has been designed to use a video device as input.
+
+(c)2008 Pierre PARENT - allonlinux@free.fr
+
+Distributed according to the GPL.
+************************************************************************************************
+
+
+--- INSTALL ---
+
+Log in as root and type :
+
+	make && make install
+
+
+
+--- RUN ---
+
+1/ Load the AVLD module as root :
+	modprobe avld
+!!! Be careful that the default video size is 340x240 !!!
+
+You can specify the video size, framerate and palette of input reading like that :
+	modprobe avld width=640 height=480 fps=25 palette=0
+
+
+2/ Write on the device :
+	mencoder my_movie.*** -nosound -ovc raw -vf format=bgr24 -of rawvideo -o /dev/video0 ( or /dev/video1 if you have loaded another video device before AVLD... )
+!!! Be careful to send to the dummy video device a video with the exact same size than this used when you loaded 
+the module. You can also scale the video size with mencoder !!!
+
+3/ Use the Videoconferencing software of your choice (amsn, gnomemeeting, ...) or mplayer if you want
+to check that it works on your computer :
+	mplayer tv:// -tv "driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:noaudio:outfmt=rgb24"
+
+4/ Once you have loaded the module, if you want to change the video paremeters, it is now available by sending the entire following line to the device :
+	"width=[new_video_width] height=[new_video_height"] fps=[new_video_fps]"
+example :
+	echo "width=800 height=600 fps=25" > /dev/video0
+
+Note: if you want to unload the module, check that no more process are using the video device...

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