On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Julian Calaby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:29 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does anyone have a setup which works for viewing a live image from the >> csi camera on the display? Something like cheese? >> >> I tried doing this on the A20 with non-accelerated video drivers and >> the system is not fast enough to keep up with the output from the CSI >> camera. Cheese just gives me a black rectangle and lots of errors out >> of the camera drivers. > > The CSI driver provides a Video4Linux (/dev/video*) interface, right? > Have you tried mplayer, xawtv (X11), fbtv (framebuffer) or any of the > other random TV viewing apps? They're usually a lot more light-weight > than cheese and generally faster as they're optimised for pumping data > from the video input to the display, rather than all the UI and > effects and stuff that cheese expects to do.
I guess I can try building mplayer2 with the vdpau support mentioned elsewhere. So I guess no one has a working system that can view a CSI camera? > >> I want to work on the CSI driver but I need to be able to see what I >> am doing. When the display system isn't fast enough everything gets >> complicated because of dropped frames. >> >> It also doesn't work to save the video stream to SD Card or the >> network, neither is fast enough. > > Sounds like a scenario where hardware video encoding would be beneficial =) I have this new armhl cedar encoder build that I'd like to check out, I just need to get display working first so that I can see what it is doing. > > Thanks, > > -- > Julian Calaby > > Email: [email protected] > Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ > .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "linux-sunxi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
