Hi Jan, hi Laurent...
i have the same problem with different webcam... i think to have
found the problem, Laurent tell me if i am wrong, i'll go to explain:
The problem is in the bandwidth, the uvcdriver ALWAYS ask to usb
layer a dw_MaxPayloadTransferSize that is fetched only when the device
is opening;
In my case is always set to 3072 (3x1024). I have tried changing
uvc_video.c in a very dirty manner (excuse me Laurent) in this way:
In function 'uvc_set_video_ctrl' where there is:
put_unaligned_le32(ctrl->dwMaxVideoFrameSize, &data[18]);
put_unaligned_le32(ctrl->dwMaxPayloadTransferSize, &data[22]);
i have commented out the second line and changed it in:
put_unaligned_le32(1024, &data[22]);
In this way i have always force uvc driver to ask for a payload size
of 1024.
After recompiling, reinstalling, unload e load the module, i can get
two webcam working fine and simultaneously.
Now i didn't have a big experience and i can't change source myself
in the right way... but i think that my observation can be usefull.
I think that the best way to re-negotiate the bandwidth is to set
video streaming parameters (framesize and frameinterval) and after ask
the device wich bandwidth it requests.
In a short way, at the end of uvc_set_video_ctrl function a call to
uvc_get_video_ctrl will solve the problem... what do you think Laurent?)
BR Simone
P.S.: Excuse me for my english....
Jan Ciger wrote:
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> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
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>> That's bad. The USB EHCI driver will reject 2x 3072 bytes per microframe as
>> exceeding the available bandwidth.
>>
>
> Yep, I suspected something like that ...
>
>
>> I suppose you'll object that the cameras work on Windows, so I'll try to
>> address that :-)
>>
>
> Thank you :)
>
>
>> I see three possible reasons why Windows would stream video from both
>> cameras
>> at the same time.
>>
>> - The Windows UVC driver might query the cameras slightly differently and
>> receive a different bandwidth. A USB sniffer would help confirm or infirm
>> this explanation.
>>
>
> I can check this if I manage to get a sniffer to work. I will report
> back once that far.
>
>
>> - The Windows UVC driver might ignore the requested bandwidth and compute a
>> value itself.
>>
>> - Windows might accept 2x 3072 bytes per microframe. I seem to remember this
>> might be the case, and that that behaviour is buggy according to the USB 2.0
>> spec. You would have to contact the linux-usb mailing list for more
>> information on that.
>>
>
> Hard to say which one is correct. It could be even both - Windows
> accepts the value (doesn't report error) and the driver does some kind
> of black magic afterwards to get things actually working.
>
> I am getting different resolutions offered on Windows than on Linux and
> also the camera seems to run at a lower framerate if both cameras are
> streaming. I didn't try to measure it, but the stereo output looks like
> ~10fps or so. It could be a software issue as well, though.
>
> The documentation is also cautioning to plug the device ideally to a
> separate host and not to use the USB connectors on the front panel -
> they assume that those are not full-featured. So it could be indeed a
> marginal design.
>
>
>> It would be helpful if you could capture all USB control traffic from device
>> enumeration to video streaming using a USB analyser (a software one will
>> do).
>> It would show what bandwidth the device requests, and what bandwidth the
>> Windows UVC driver selects.
>>
>
> As I said above, I will try to get a sniffer working and will report
> back once that far.
>
> Regards (and thanks),
>
> Jan
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