Hi Jon, On Saturday 23 May 2009 19:42:09 Jon Fairbairn wrote: > Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi Moritz, > > > > On Monday 22 September 2008, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:03:13 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> > > I had a sneaky suspicion my camera was stuck in top quality. Laurent > >> > > Pinchart's comments from March 25th confirmed and were a nice > >> > > blueprint for this patch. > >> > > >> > First of all, thanks for the patch. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > Great :-) I'll have a look at the code after this weekend, and commit > >> > the changes to SVN. > > [...] > > >> Has this patch[*] been obsoleted, or forgotten, or perhaps even > >> rejected? > > > > Mostly forgotten actually. I'm working on reviving it, but I first have > > to implement proper workarounds for webcams that don't implement the > > GET_MIN/GET_MAX requests on the video probe control properly (and there > > are many of them). I'll soon post a patch for review/testing on the list, > > and I'll then work on the JPEG quality patch. > > > >> The recent release of motion mentions this in its CHANGELOG (though I > >> think the patch is unrelated to the named issue): > >> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/UvcvideoMjpegPatch > > > > That's related. Thanks for the information. I'll contact > > the authors of motion after committing JPEG quality > > support to update their wiki. > > How's this going? I recently got a Creative Live! Cam Optia > (ID 041e:4057) and am using it with motion. Although it's > connected to a USB2 port, I'm getting a problem (maybe > caused by a bug in the usb root driver, but that's not the > topic here¹) that causes the device to disappear if I try to > use the full resolution of the camera. As a work-round for > that, I thought I could use MJPEG, but then I hit the > problem this thread is about. > > I'm using the latest(?) fedora 9 kernel > (2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.x86_64). F9 is a bit out of date now, > but looking at the uvcvideo repo I couldn't find signs of > the patch having been applied. > > It would be useful to me if a patch for this did get > included. In the short term I suppose I could build a > patched version of the module (modulo some change to the > patch to make it apply to the present code), but it would be > much nicer if it made it into the tree. > > (Mostly posting to indicate that there is other interest in > this issue). > > [1] I can't address the USB root issue as I'm too far from > the camera to unplug it.
I guess I have no choice but to work on this then :-) I'll try to get a patch ready for the end of the week. If I don't feel free to (nicely) remind me. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
