Marr wrote:
Hi All,
Although I'm not that intent on using my camcorder to stream video over USB, I'm still interested in these threads and would try to contribute (testing, etc) if needed.
Indeed, I received a patch from Alan Stern in July for this and it worked. I don't know either if Alan has pushed it to the dev team . I'am sure he will tell us more.
After this first step to the success, I tried to "reuse" the existing webcam drivers wihtout ... success (shaking them a bit to try to recognize the video device). I tried also to get some technical support from Sony, at least to get some technical details of the CCD chip, format of the video stream.... without more success :-).
Than I left for some holidays...and played a lot with my Camera :-))).
I bought a cheap TV card, so I can plug my camera to it via the SVideo or Composite input. The bttv driver works perfectly for the TV card. The IEEE1394 works also perfectly (in & out)) thanks to the TRANSCODE and all the DV1394, VIDEO1394 stuff.
Now, I'am still interested to make it work (the USB video stream) just for the challenge and for the fun ! But I don't have any experience to write a Linux Driver. So,if you can....your contribution would be greatly appreciated :-).
The only way I can contribute to the dev of such a module is by providing some help to probe the device, provide some logs, recompile some drivers, & test them....or if you think about something else, we can of course think about it. That could be my little contribution to such a project :-).
Just one thing. Don't you think we should move to a V4L users list to continue this thread ?
Thanks a lot for your interest !
Luc
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