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v4l

v0.14.0 Growing

Safe video4linux (v4l) bindings

MIT Edition 2018

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 3+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 153 crates
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
5.9M
Dependents
153
Releases
25
Size
42KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

470.1K downloads in the last 30 days (15.7K/day), up 2% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

153 crates depend on v4l. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, v4l hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 41KB, v4l is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include nokhwa-bindings-linux, machine-info, kornia-io, termchat, ffutility. When high-quality crates choose v4l, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 6/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 7/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 9/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
15K/day avg-5%
05K10K15K20K25K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.14.0
97%
v0.12.1
2%
v0.13.1
1%
v0.13.0
0%
v0.12.0
0%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["v4l2"]

v4l2*libv4l

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
6
direct dependencies
Dependents
153
crates depend on v4l