On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM, @lex <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems to be a nice camera, but that depends on your kernel version.
> There is no support for SN9C291 OV9712 on kernel v3.4.39.
> And no support on odroid-3.8.30 on my U3 also.
> Don't know about armbian legacy kernel version, but i don't expect there
> will be support also.

The camera does not need a specific driver, it uses the generic USB
Video driver.
It is like a USB mouse or keyboard, you don't need a specific driver
for every different one.

Drivers/Multimedia/Media USB/USB Video Class (UVC)

Kconfig USB_VIDEO_CLASS

This support dates way back to around 2.4 or so. Almost every desktop
web cam works using this driver.

>
> On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 4:41:59 PM UTC-3, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Manuel Braga <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:53:36 -0800 (PST) Rosimildo DaSilva
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I did not mention, but I founf two issues withe blobs:
>> >>
>> >> a) Motion Detection causes segmentation fault, whenever enabled.
>> >> b) FFMPEG complains that timestamp ( PTS/DTS ) are missing on the
>> >> H264 stream generated by the encoder... I've tried many things ( code
>> >> is commented out ), but nothing worked.
>> >
>> > There is another issue, that i believe to be important.
>> > But for whatever reasons, it has to be constantly remembered about its
>> > existence.
>> >
>> > And that issue is:
>> >
>> >   c) The proprietaries binary blobs don't have a clear license attached.
>> >
>> > And in the copyright law, any "things" with "no license" by default fell
>> > in the "all rights reserved".
>>
>> I gave up fighting with Allwinner's encoder long ago. It is far easier
>> to just plug in a USB based h.264 camera. You can easily buy ones from
>> Logitech for $50.
>>
>> If you want it at the hardware level, look at chips from Sonix. Here
>> is a board based on the SN9C291 for $8.50. The bare chips are about
>> $4.
>>
>> https://world.taobao.com/item/40004211822.htm?spm=a312a.7700714.0.0.zGiipg#detail
>>
>> Note that this PCBA is the same price as most bare image sensors
>> mounted on a flex cable. Plus I find it much easier to wire things
>> with a simple USB cable instead of an FFC.
>>
>> The Sonix chips will appear as USB UVC devices when plugged into Linux
>> and they will need no special drivers. They also work on Windows.
>>
>>
>>
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