The UVC Video Class Gadget Library or libguvc for short is a platform agnostic library that simplifies the development of UVC based gadget devices by encapsulating the most of the UVC communication leaving just the basic setup to the user. The USB video class gadget runs on top of the UVC function driver in the user space and takes care of the communication between the user application and the linux driver stack.

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