Hi Sakari,

Thanks for the clarification. I will follow up with the contributor.

Regards,
Min

-----Original Message-----
From: Poussa Sakari (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) 
Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 8:13 PM
To: Shin Minjung (Nokia-MS-Qt/Brisbane); [email protected]; Palojarvi 
Jari (Nokia-MS/Tampere)
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Kost Stefan (Nokia-MS/Helsinki); 
Hyvarinen Olli (Nokia-MS/Tampere)
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] camera subdev solution ?

Minjung,

Not using the camerabin based backend is not according to the MeeGo
architecture. MeeGo camera adaptation interface IS gst camerabin.

-sakari


On 3/11/10 5:11 PM, "Shin Minjung (Nokia-MS-Qt/Brisbane)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Qt Mobility camera support prefers camerabin based implementation as backend
> so that we do not need to have hardware specific implementation. Intel wanted
> to contribute to the camera backend but the solution was implemented as a
> customized pipeline using QGstreamerCaptureService to utilize hardware
> acceleration. We decided to accept the contribution. It would be better if we
> have camerabin based implementation in the future.
> 
> For more information please refer to this mail in Mobility mailing list.
> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/6jz3kNo0p2e8fZMe8fWd
> 
> Regards,
> Min
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of ext Teemu Tuominen
> Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:27 AM
> To: Palojarvi Jari (Nokia-MS/Tampere)
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] camera subdev solution ?
> 
> 
>   good point, they will surely differ. And I surely hope it stays on gst
> level as you refer.
> 
> However, Meego tends to generalize packetizing as far as possible and
> also gst-plugins packaging tend to gather stuff. So, I had a feeling the
> camera stuff is not an exception.
> 
> If we consider...
> 
> qt-mobility (camera API, multimedia/gstreamer/camerabin)
> gstreamer
> gst-plugins-bad-free (camerabin, libphotography)
> gst-plugins-camera (generic source elements and other oss source
> elements for different hw)
> kernel
> 
> And when the request comes to use specific implementation - it would
> mean additional packages, not replacive. Doesn't that look good ?
> 
> Although deve's are not having fun with this ideology in Meego, I felt
> it isn't far from possible if we get humble and sync up to iterate
> things for camera features. And yet, man could enable all features using
> HW specific replacive solution.
> 
> In mean time, we will likely push another specific package basing on
> gst-nokia-videosrc and try to enable ways of utilizing it through higher
> level API's as planned. Unfortunately from my point of view it requires
> a bit of studying and takes some time. During this workout I have also
> got a bit diverged input about how things are implemented within
> top-level components, so its time to read the code myself. However, I'm
> all ears to anyone working with the field.
> 
> 
> regards,
> -Teemu
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/03/2010 02:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Just a quick note highlighting the obvious: the camera source component in
>> GStreamer and the subdev drivers are a part of camera HW adaptation. So they
>> may (and likely will) differ between different HW platforms.
>> 
>> Regards, Jari
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> On Behalf Of ext Zhang, Vivian
>>> Sent: 27. lokakuuta 2010 04:25
>>> To: Teemu Tuominen; Development for the MeeGo Project
>>> Cc: Hu, Gang A
>>> Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] camera subdev solution ?
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>     The source of gst-v4l2-camsrc project in OBS is located at
>>> http://meego.gitorious.org/maemo-multimedia/mfldv4l2camsrc which is
>>> branched from gst-nokia-videosrc. Intel engineers are working on this
>>> project to do more enhancements/fixings for Intel Medfield ISP.
>>>    Also cc'd hu, gang for more technical details.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> vivian
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> On Behalf Of Teemu Tuominen
>>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 8:53 PM
>>> To: Development for the MeeGo Project
>>> Subject: [MeeGo-dev] camera subdev solution ?
>>> 
>>>    Hello,
>>> 
>>> I've been working with camera stack for Meego/N900. Recently the
>>> gst-v4l2-camsrc was added to meego obs and I was a little confused
>>> about
>>> the naming and different affiliations of the project.
>>> 
>>> However, I assume kind of generalization is about to happen with v4l2
>>> subdev&  mediacontroller api's, but I would be delighted if someone
>>> could sync me up to the work and roadmap of previously committed
>>> projects.
>>> 
>>> I have build modified gst-nokia-videosrc project in my obs home
>>> (home:teemu.tuominen) for Meego/N900 to gain raw viewfinder mode
>>> through
>>> gst components (camerabin, subdevsrc). Is gst-v4l2-camsrc now the place
>>> to add such patches ?
>>> 
>>> regards,
>>> Teemu Tuominen
>>> Cybercom Plenware
>>> 
>>> 
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