On 2011-08-30 16:50, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
Hi Gary,

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 00:45:39 Gary Thomas wrote:
On 2011-08-29 04:49, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
On Thursday 25 August 2011 18:07:38 Gary Thomas wrote:
Background:  I have working video capture drivers based on the
TI PSP codebase from 2.6.32.  In particular, I managed to get
a driver for the TVP5150 (analogue BT656) working with that kernel.

Now I need to update to Linux 3.0, so I'm trying to get a driver
working with the rewritten ISP code.  Sadly, I'm having a hard
time with this - probably just missing something basic.

I've tried to clone the TVP514x driver which says that it works
with the OMAP3 ISP code.  I've updated it to use my decoder device,
but I can't even seem to get into that code from user land.

Here are the problems I've had so far:
     * udev doesn't create any video devices although they have been

       registered.  I see a full set in /sys/class/video4linux

          # ls /sys/class/video4linux/
          v4l-subdev0  v4l-subdev3  v4l-subdev6  video1       video4
          v4l-subdev1  v4l-subdev4  v4l-subdev7  video2       video5
          v4l-subdev2  v4l-subdev5  video0       video3       video6

It looks like a udev issue. I don't think that's related to the kernel
drivers.

       Indeed, if I create /dev/videoX by hand, I can get somewhere, but
       I don't really understand how this is supposed to work.  e.g.

         # v4l2-dbg --info /dev/video3

         Driver info:
             Driver name   : ispvideo
             Card type     : OMAP3 ISP CCP2 input
             Bus info      : media
             Driver version: 1
             Capabilities  : 0x04000002

                     Video Output
                     Streaming

     * If I try to grab video, the ISP layer gets a ton of warnings, but

       I never see it call down into my driver, e.g. to check the current
       format, etc.  I have some of my own code from before which fails
       miserably (not a big surprise given the hack level of those
       programs).

       I tried something off-the-shelf which also fails pretty bad:
         # ffmpeg -t 10 -f video4linux2 -s 720x480 -r 30 -i /dev/video2

junk.mp4

I've read through Documentation/video4linux/omap3isp.txt without
learning much about what might be wrong.

Can someone give me some ideas/guidance, please?

In a nutshell, you will first have to configure the OMAP3 ISP pipeline,
and then capture video.

Configuring the pipeline is done through the media controller API and the
V4L2 subdev pad-level API. To experiment with those you can use the
media-ctl command line application available at
http://git.ideasonboard.org/?p=media- ctl.git;a=summary. You can run it
with --print-dot and pipe the result to dot -Tps to get a postscript
graphical view of your device.

Here's a sample pipeline configuration to capture scaled-down YUV data
from a sensor:

./media-ctl -r -l '"mt9t001 3-005d":0->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP
CCDC":2->"OMAP3 ISP preview":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP preview":1->"OMAP3 ISP
resizer":0[1], "OMAP3 ISP resizer":1->"OMAP3 ISP resizer output":0[1]'
./media-ctl -f '"mt9t001 3-005d":0[SGRBG10 1024x768], "OMAP3 ISP
CCDC":2[SGRBG10 1024x767], "OMAP3 ISP preview":1[YUYV 1006x759], "OMAP3
ISP resizer":1[YUYV 800x600]'

After configuring your pipeline you will be able to capture video using
the V4L2 API on the device node at the output of the pipeline.

Getting somewhere now, thanks.  When I use this full pipeline, I can get
all the way into my driver where it's trying to start the data.

What if I want to use less of the pipeline?  For example, I'd normally be
happy with just the CCDC output.  How would I do that?

Then connect CCDC's pad 1 to the CCDC output video node and capture on that
video node.

What pixel format would I use with ffmpeg?

What does your subdev deliver ?

It's a BT656 encoder - 8-bit UYVY 4:2:2


n.b. I know most of these are pretty n00b questions - I'd look up the
answers for myself, but I've had precious little success finding any
documentation, especially on media-ctl and/or the OMAP3 ISP setups.


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