Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:57:30 +0200


On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:39:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > The driver does not yet support overlay (no docs... :-( ), but it does =
> > support
>
> Are you sure the hardware supports overlay ?

Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to
the video bus, there is something missing to enable overlay
(either in the mchip or in the ati video driver).

> > grabbing, jpeg snapshots and mjpeg compressed videos (through a private=
> > API,
> > documented in <file:Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt>).
>
> We have an API for mjpeg in the buz, I wonder if its possible to make that
> more generic.

I started with that one and abandoned it later, since it is really
targeted to _tv_ capture cards only (the size of capture can be only
the PAL/NTSC size, and many other little things, like framerate
fixed to PAL/NTSC mode too etc.)

Maybe video4linux version 2 will be a more useful API for all
cameras / webcams / video capture cards. (almost a carbon copy
of what I say in Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt :-) ).

Stelian.

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