Conceptually I can understand that Termux cant take a photo or video from a camera device because it doesnt have access to the camera drivers that Android has…

…except that the Termux API does allow you to take a photo. So why is video off limits?

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    # ls -l /dev/video0
    crw-rw---- 1 system camera 81,   0 1974-07-26 10:09 /dev/video0
    

    Android doesn’t handle users and groups like standard Linux, but the user account assigned to Termux is not a member of the camera group.