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Completes quest/main/capture-v4l-bindings.

Problem

moq-video's capture and v4l2 features pulled the v4l crate, whose sys dependency v4l2-sys-mit runs bindgen over the kernel's videodev2.h at build time. Every Linux build host needed libclang plus the kernel headers, which is the one cost that kept cargo install moq-cli from ever shipping capture by default (#3852).

Approach

rs/moq-v4l forks v4l 0.14 with the bindings generated once and checked in, the rs/moq-nvenc pattern. A workspace [patch] was not an option: it reaches only in-tree builds, and v4l names its sys crate by crates.io name so the sys crate cannot be swapped alone.

  • Bindings: src/sys/videodev2.rs, generated by src/sys/bindgen.sh (bindgen 0.73.2, kernel 6.12 headers). No layout tests, fixed-width integers, timeval / timespec from libc, so one file serves every 64-bit Linux target. The arm64 and amd64 outputs are byte-identical.
  • Only the raw-ioctl backend survives; the libv4l link-time backend is gone. Nothing links at build time. The crate is #![cfg(target_os = "linux")], an empty stub elsewhere.
  • bitflags 1 -> 2 with explicit derives, and the clippy fixes the 1.95 toolchain wants.
  • The fork completes the VIDIOC_* table (79-104), so moq-video's hand-built DQEVENT / SUBSCRIBE_EVENT / G_SELECTION / DECODER_CMD codes and their test move into the crate.
  • moq-video swaps v4l:: for moq_v4l:: and v4l_sys for sys. No logic changes.
  • bindgen 0.65, v4l, v4l2-sys-mit, which, lazycell, peeking_take_while, home leave Cargo.lock.

capture and v4l2 stay opt-in: turning them on by default is quest/next/cli-packaging.md's call, which now lists only the ALSA quest under Required.

Impact

  • Public API: new published crate moq-v4l 0.0.1 (MIT, fork of v4l). moq-video's feature names and semantics are unchanged; only their build cost drops. nix/overlay.nix keeps bindgenHook for libmoq because of moq-vaapi.
  • Wire: none.

Verification

In a rust:1.95-bookworm container with no libclang:

  • cargo clippy -p moq-v4l --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo clippy -p moq-video --no-default-features --features capture,v4l2 --all-targets -- -D warnings pass.
  • cargo test -p moq-v4l: the VIDIOC pin test plus 17 doctests pass.
  • cargo tree -p moq-video --features capture,v4l2 -e build,normal -i bindgen reports no such package.

On Linux after the rebase: just check (including the just rs capture gate) and just test pass. No device was opened; the M2M and camera paths are import renames only.

Follow-ups

  • Offer the checked-in bindings upstream to raymanfx/libv4l-rs and retire the fork if a release lands.
  • quest/next/cli-packaging.md can now consider v4l2 default-on alongside capture.

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The pull request adds the Linux-only moq-v4l crate with checked-in videodev2.h bindings, V4L2 ioctl definitions, device controls, formats, and streaming I/O. It replaces the external v4l dependency in moq-video with moq-v4l. Capture, codec, ioctl, and memory-mapping paths now use the local crate. Documentation and packaging comments remove the V4L2 libclang and kernel-header build requirement.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8f4a0

The runtime implementation remains unaffected, but the cross-target test should be corrected before merging if those Linux targets are supported.

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Positive improvement? Yes. Vendoring v4l 0.14 as moq-v4l with checked-in videodev2.h bindings removes the libclang + kernel-header tax that blocked shipping capture/v4l2 for a plain cargo install. Verification in a no-libclang container (clippy, tests, cargo tree with no bindgen) and the import-only moq-video rename make this a packaging win without behavior change. Completing the VIDIOC table and folding the hand-rolled DQEVENT/SUBSCRIBE_EVENT/G_SELECTION/DECODER_CMD codes into the crate is a small bonus cleanup.

Worth the complexity? The ~7.5k-line delta looks large, but almost all of it is the MIT fork plus one generated bindings file—the same pattern as moq-nvenc. Ongoing cost is regenerating bindings (bindgen.sh) and tracking upstream v4l fixes; that is cheaper than every Linux cargo install / Docker / non-Nix builder needing clang and videodev2.h. Dropping the unused libv4l link backend keeps the fork thinner. Keeping features opt-in until the ALSA quest lands is the right scope.

Different approach better? Workspace [patch] only helps in-tree builds and does not fix crates.io consumers. Swapping only a sys crate fails because v4l pins v4l2-sys-mit by crates.io name. A minimal hand-rolled ioctl layer would discard a working API both capture and the M2M backends already use. Offering the checked-in bindings upstream (already listed as a follow-up) is the best long-term exit; it should not block merging this unblocking step.

Verdict: merge. Complexity is justified by the packaging goal and existing in-tree precedent; patch/sys-only alternatives do not solve cargo install.

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  1. capture docs still claim Linux camera bindgen needs libclang and V4L2 headers (rs/moq-video/src/lib.rs:22, AGENTS.md#required). Update to state moq-v4l checks bindings in with no build deps.
  2. Encoder docs still claim moq_v4l costs build-time bindgen (rs/moq-video/src/encode/backend/v4l2.rs:10, AGENTS.md#required). Change to no build cost, matching rs/moq-video/Cargo.toml:66.
  3. Comment still names the removed v4l crate helpers (rs/moq-video/src/capture/v4l2.rs:162, AGENTS.md#required). Rename to moq_v4l.

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All three findings applied in e83027b: lib.rs no longer charges capture for libclang and the V4L2 headers, the V4L2 encoder backend no longer claims a build-time bindgen, and the frame_sizes comment names moq-v4l. Also rebased onto main (the branch was unmergeable) and fixed the same stale claims in rs/moq-video/README.md.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
moq-video's `capture` and `v4l2` features pulled the `v4l` crate, whose
sys dependency runs bindgen over the kernel's videodev2.h at build time,
so every Linux build host needed libclang and the kernel headers. That
was the one cost that kept `cargo install moq-cli` from ever shipping
capture by default.

rs/moq-v4l forks `v4l` 0.14 with the bindings generated once and checked
in, the way rs/moq-nvenc forks its SDK. The output is arch-independent
(no layout tests, fixed-width integers, `timeval`/`timespec` from libc)
and the regeneration script sits beside it. Only the raw-ioctl backend
survives; nothing links at build time, and the crate is an empty stub
off Linux.

The fork also completes the VIDIOC request table, so moq-video's
hand-built DQEVENT/SUBSCRIBE_EVENT/G_SELECTION/DECODER_CMD codes and
their test move into the crate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
moq-video's README still said `capture` pulls V4L2 and libclang build
dependencies, and moq-v4l's crate docs pointed at examples the fork does
not carry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three comments still described the build cost the fork removes, and one
still named the `v4l` crate's helpers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: approve
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What changed since the last run

  • Merged main into the branch, picking up test(moq-gst): decide the cancelled pump race instead of sleeping on it #3898, the fix for the moq-gst flake that failed the last Test run (source::imp::session_tests::a_subscription_resolving_after_cancellation_creates_no_pad panicked at rs/moq-gst/src/source/imp.rs:1158). No changes to moq-gst itself; the fix arrives from main.
  • CodeRabbit finding applied in rs/moq-v4l/src/v4l2/vidioc.rs (codes_match_the_header), with one correction to the suggested values:
    • All seven ioctl codes are now compared as u32. This makes the test compile on musl, where _IOC_TYPE is c_int and literals such as 0xc0d0_5605 overflow i32.
    • VIDIOC_S_FMT is pinned per pointer width: 208-byte v4l2_format on 64-bit, 204 bytes on ILP32 (v4l2_window loses pointer padding).
    • VIDIOC_DQEVENT is pinned per pointer width and 32-bit u64 alignment: 136 bytes on 64-bit; on 32-bit, 128 bytes (0x8080_5659) where the ABI aligns u64 to 8 (arm) vs 120 bytes (0x8078_5659, the suggested value) on x86 where it aligns to 4. The layouts were cross-checked with clang for x86_64, i686, armv7, and aarch64 against the checked-in bindgen structs.
    • The other five pins are unchanged apart from the casts; their payloads contain no pointers or u64.

Validation

  • cargo test -p moq-v4l passes.
  • cargo clippy --locked -p moq-v4l --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --all --check pass.

Public API: unchanged (moq-v4l 0.0.1 as before). Wire: none.

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  1. Root workspace comment still attributes capture to (V4L2, libclang) after this PR removed that build cost (Cargo.toml:178, AGENTS.md#required). Reword the parenthetical to device capture with no libclang claim, matching rs/moq-ffi/Cargo.toml:58.
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