Hi Kaz, On Friday 30 September 2011 04:24:02 Kaz Kylheku wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm searching for a suitable H.264 camera to use as a "reference > hardware" for a a Linux-based embedded platform. > > I've seen references to the B990 from Logitech, so that looks like a > good candidate. > > Is there anything out there which goes above 720p, maybe as high as > 1080p? > > This is not a hard requirement, but a "nice to have". > > It would be nice to have as capable a H.264 camera as possible for the > reference. > > An important requirement is that the un-encoded video stream is available > from the camera, not only the coded stream. It should be possible to loop > back the picture without decoding anything, since decoding resources are > limited on the platform, especially when we get into higher resolutions.
I expect most H.264 webcams to support streaming a compressed and an uncompressed stream concurrently. However, most of them do so in a completely proprietary way, and are not supported by the uvcvideo driver at the moment. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
