Hi Yann,

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 12:02:09 Yann Sionneau wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your testing and report ! :)
> 
> Your test and mine show that webcams seem to be implementing the UVC
> spec correctly regarding timestamping.
> 
> I mean :
> 
> (*) Putting PTS for each packet
> (*) Putting SCR for each packet
> (*) Having the same PTS for each packet of the same frame
> (*) Having different SCR for each packet of the same frame
> 
> Well, about FID/EOF bugs, I guess a change of PTS can be interpreted as
> "the beginning of a new frame", so it may be useful in case of a webcam
> having troubles signaling new frames using the usual FID/EOF bits.
> 
> I am new to this (UVC), so you may need to confirm with someone else
> (Laurent ?) what I just wrote, but to me it makes sense to interpret a
> change of PTS as a "new frame".

That could be done, provided that the camera sends correct PTS values.

> Reading the code I noticed a few "quirks" used to workaround webcams not
> implementing correctly the UVC spec regarding FID and EOF bits.
> 
> Are there webcams which have both problems ? (not making FID toggle, and
> not specifying EOF ?)

Not that I know of.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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