Re: [PATCH] Illuminators and status LED controls

2010-09-07 Thread Theodore Kilgore
suspect that the general public would see that 0 corresponds more naturally to off than 1 does. Hoping that all is well with you and others. Cheers, and this is just my two cents on a trivial issue. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body

Re: Linux V4L2 support dual stream video capture device

2010-09-13 Thread Theodore Kilgore
compression algorithm is going to be in use, then clearly it is possible to get the support going much earlier if information is provided. Hoping that this will help you and thanking you for any additional information about the new camera. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux V4L2 support dual stream video capture device

2010-09-14 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Laurent Pinchart wrote: Hi Theodore, On Monday 13 September 2010 19:17:48 Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Friday 07 May 2010 20:20:38 Wang, Wen W wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if V4L2 framework supports dual

Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do

2010-10-18 Thread Theodore Kilgore
distros offer a non-smp kernel as an installation option in case the user needs it? So in reality how big a problem is this? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Power frequency detection.

2010-12-18 Thread Theodore Kilgore
product number in gspca/sq905c.c. I will get around to doing that formally, of course, when I get time. But if anyone wants just to add the number and re-compile the Vendor:Product number for the new camera is 0x2770:0x9051. Merry Christmas. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Power frequency detection.

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Paulo Assis wrote: Hi, 2010/12/18 Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu: Does anyone know whether, somewhere in the kernel, there exists a scheme for detecting whether the external power supply of the computer is using 50hz or 60hz? The reason I

Re: Power frequency detection.

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
and a workqueue is another problem interesting little problem. Your thoughts on this interesting little problem would be appreciated. As I said, Merry Christmas :-) Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

problems with using the -rc kernel in the git tree

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
is unfortunately the foreseeable result. An experimental kernel with some totally unrelated bug which affects my hardware and meanwhile stops all progress. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: Power frequency detection.

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Andy Walls wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:51 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Andy Walls wrote: Theodore, Aside from detect measurment of the power line, isn't a camera the best sort of sensor for this measurment anyway

Re: Power frequency detection.

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Adam Baker wrote: On Sunday 19 Dec 2010, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Finally, one concern that I have in the back of my mind is the question of control settings for a camera which streams in bulk mode and requires the setup of a workqueue. The owner of the camera says

Re: Power frequency detection.

2010-12-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Andy Walls wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 18:13 -0600, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Andy Walls wrote: The Software for our Sakar branded Jeilin camera was a little smarter. Oh. So _you_ had a Sakar branded camera. This was one of the things

Re: problems with using the -rc kernel in the git tree

2010-12-20 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alex Deucher wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Hans, Thanks for the helpful advice about how to set up a git tree for current development so that I can get back into things. However

[PATCH] Adds the Lego Bionicle to existing sq905c

2010-12-24 Thread Theodore Kilgore
This patch adds the Vendor:Product number of the Lego Bionicle camera to the existing gspca/sq905c.c and also a line for the camera in gspca.txt. The camera works out of the box with these small changes. So this is just in time for Christmas. Think of the children. Signed-off-by: Theodore

Re: [PATCH] Adds the Lego Bionicle to existing sq905c

2010-12-25 Thread Theodore Kilgore
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Re: [PATCH] Adds the Lego Bionicle to existing sq905c

2010-12-25 Thread Theodore Kilgore
waiting for me to be less busy and preoccupied. But I have not lost interest. Wishing for you and for all of us a peaceful and prosperous year 2011. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: spca1528 device (Device 015: ID 04fc:1528 Sunplus Technology)..libv4l2: error turning on stream: Timer expired issue

2011-09-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
capabilities? If so, you might be interested in contacting the Gphoto project. I just searched for it there, and it does not seem to be listed. I assume that the specialists on the spca cameras will step forward. I am not one of them, as I said. Good luck. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from

Fly 110 TV camera

2011-10-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
version of some program? Oh, yes, and to the above we can definitely add that there is surely enough fun for all in this. Does anyone else want to play? If so, go right ahead and contact me or Ilya. Theodore Kilgore (message with some relevant background information in it follows

Re: Debug code in HG repositories

2011-01-07 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. Testers are impatient. Developers are impatient. We are all impatient when things like this happen. People who are not sufficiently knowledgeable, who are not sufficiently tenacious, or who simply do not have sufficient time or motivation will just quit. It is something to think about. Theodore

Re: Debug code in HG repositories

2011-01-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Mauro, A few comments in-line. Vide infra. On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 07-01-2011 21:42, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: Have you tried Mauro's media_build tree? I had to use it today to test a driver from git on a 2.6.35 kernel. Works quite nicely. Perhaps we

Re: [PATCH 2.6.39 v2] V4L: videobuf-dma-contig: fix mmap_mapper broken on ARM

2011-04-12 Thread Theodore Kilgore
is speaking here of architecture problems, there is the additional problem that some ARM systems might have not two PCI buses, but instead no PCI bus at all. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Improving kernel - userspace (usbfs) usb device hand off

2011-06-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
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Re: Improving kernel - userspace (usbfs) usb device hand off

2011-06-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Felipe Balbi wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: As I have been involved in writing the drivers (both the kernel and the libgphoto2 drivers) for many of the affected cameras, perhaps I should expand on this problem

Re: Improving kernel - userspace (usbfs) usb device hand off

2011-06-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. Or, to move the libgphoto2 driver to kernel, combine it in the same driver that handles streaming. No ? No. Something else is needed. Alan Stern Agreed. Something else is needed. But what? Also, very good point about PTP. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Improving kernel - userspace (usbfs) usb device hand off

2011-06-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
now in libusb. That had escaped my attention. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Improving kernel - userspace (usbfs) usb device hand off

2011-06-12 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 06/11/2011 06:19 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, Given the many comments in this thread, I'm just going reply to this one, and try to also answer any other ones in this mail

Re: Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Theodore Kilgore
of people will try to think of the best way to handle it. Many eyes, and all that. Not saying change your schedule, as I said. Have a nice conference. I wish I could attend. But I do hope by this message to raise some general concern about this problem. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 03-08-2011 16:53, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: As already announced, we're continuing the planning for this year's media subsystem workshop. To avoid overriding the main ML

Re: Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 04-08-2011 15:37, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: Yes, that kind of thing is an obvious problem. Actually, though, it may be that this had just better not happen. For some of the hardware that I know of, it could be a real problem

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Adam Baker wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: As far as I know, /dev/sdx signifies a device which is accessible by something like the USB mass storage protocols, at the very least. So, if that fits the camera, fine. But most of the cameras

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
functions in libusb are intended to process image data from still cameras. For a still camera, frame rate is irrelevant and meaningless. Therefore the priority is, or ought to be, to get the best possible image out of the downloaded image data. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 04-08-2011 18:16, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: This sounds to be a good theme for the Workshop, or even to KS/2011. Thanks. Do you recall when and where is KS/2011 going to take place? The media workshop happens together with the KS

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Adam Baker wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Adam Baker wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: As far as I know, /dev/sdx signifies a device which is accessible by something like the USB mass

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to describe what grand vision you yourself have in mind for the solution of the problem, with a sufficient accounting of the details that people can all see what it is and exactly how and why it would work absolutely perfectly, and then we can just get busy and do it. Theodore Kilgore

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi all, On 08/04/2011 02:34 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 03-08-2011 20:20, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: snip snip Yes, that kind of thing is an obvious problem. Actually, though, it may be that this had just better not happen

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
hardware exists with similar characteristics, but sometimes the functionaliy is not dual but even triple, and one can reasonably suspect that more of this kind of thing is going to come at us in the future. I think it is a good occasion to sit back and think things over a bit. Theodore Kilgore

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-07 Thread Theodore Kilgore
to be aware of that. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-07 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Adam Baker wrote: I've addec Hans de Geode and linux-usb to the CC as this response picks up on a related discussion about the usb mini summit. On Friday 05 August 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: If you can solve

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 07-08-2011 23:26, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: (first of two replies to Adam's message; second reply deals with other topics) On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Adam Baker wrote: On Friday 05 August 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: This sounds

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: This indirectly answers my question, above, about whatever device there may or may not be. What I get from this, and also from a bit of snooping around, is that there is not any dev that gets created

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. So, after starting all of the current mailing-list discussion on the topic I will not be at the conference. I can only hope that those who do attend will keep me current about what gets discussed. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 08-08-2011 14:39, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 07-08-2011 23:26, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: (first of two replies to Adam's message; second reply deals with other topics

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: This indirectly answers my question, above, about whatever device there may or may not be. What I get from

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
the minimal support require to make it work. You are right. We, basically, can not screw with the internals of libgphoto2. At the outside, one can not go to the point where any changes would break the support for other platforms. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Theodore Kilgore
the behavior which one woulld expect from a real still camera? It has already been done in camlibs/jl2005c and isn't that enough? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 08/08/2011 07:39 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: snip Mauro, In fact none of the currently known and supported cameras are using PTP. All of them are proprietary. They have

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
possibilities it is. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Mode Camera Chip. * * Copyright (C) 2009 Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com but I am not sure about which cameras are using this. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Re: [Workshop-2011] Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

2011-08-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 08/09/2011 07:10 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Hans de Goede wrote: snip No, but both Adam and I realized, approximately at the same time yesterday afternoon, something which is rather important here. Gphoto

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
support into the kernel just because the same hardware requires kernel support for another functionality and the two sides clash. I mean, the kernel is already big enough, no? But the logic that Hans has set forth seems rather compelling. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Alan Stern wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Okay, I didn't realize that the different cameras used different webcam drivers as well as different stillcam drivers. Oh, yes. They are Proprietary devices. And that means what it says

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: -- moving the kernel webcam drivers out of the kernel and doing with these cameras _everything_ including webcam function through libusb. I myself do not have the imagination

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 10-08-2011 15:33, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: Hans seems to have argued cogently for doing all of this in the kernel and for abandoning the usbfs-based drivers for these particular drivers for dual-mode cameras and, I would

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
processing routines, would still be used for still images. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em 11-08-2011 17:01, Theodore Kilgore escreveu: As I said, I am agnostic, though leaning in the direction that Hans de Goede is pointing. What he says about a single control mechanism seems to make a lot of sense. If you can come up

Re: USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver

2011-08-11 Thread Theodore Kilgore
will not. Until next time we meet, cheers. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

A question about Documentation/video4linux/gspca.txt

2009-03-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. If that were done, then it would be only needed to put the USB Vendor:Product number into the gspca.txt file, along with a pointer to the full information. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

[PATCH] to add new camera in gspca/mr97310a.c

2009-03-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
The purpose of the following patch is to add another camera, with the new USB Vendor:Product number 0x093a:0x010f to gspca/mr97310a.c. The camera has also been added to the list of supported cameras in Documentation/gspca.txt. Signed-off-by: Theodore Kilgore kilg...@auburn.edu

Re: libv4l: Possibility of changing the current pixelformat on the fly

2009-04-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
of course have to move triples instead of single bytes, in order to leave the color mapping unmolested. It is interesting that this problem comes up with some other cameras, too. Theodore Kilgore

Re: libv4l: Possibility of changing the current pixelformat on the fly

2009-04-05 Thread Theodore Kilgore
if the flipping is done in V4L or in hardware, before the data has left the camera. It would only be necessary to agree that any required flipping takes place first, and then the Bayer interpolation afterwards. Theodore Kilgore

Re: [RFC] White Balance control for digital camera

2009-04-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
examples, too, but these will do for a start. Are there any agreed-upon standards about this kind of thing, in the camera industry? Is there any source of information about it? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message

Re: [RFC] White Balance control for digital camera

2009-04-10 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim wrote: Hello everyone, I'm posting this RFC one more time because it seems to everyone has been forgot

Some questions about mr97310 controls (continuing previous thread on mr97310a.c)

2009-04-15 Thread Theodore Kilgore
kind of standardized scale? Or is it something which is camera-specific? Also what is does set mean in this context? This last in view of the fact that this is data which the camera provides for our presumed information, not something which we are sending to the camera? Theodore Kilgore

Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l

2009-04-16 Thread Theodore Kilgore
a standalone raw converter in the directory playground/raw_converters/mars, on the Gphoto SVN site. Since you are interested in the MR97310a cameras, you might be interested in that. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message

Re: Some questions about mr97310 controls (continuing previous thread on mr97310a.c)

2009-04-16 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hello Theodore My answers/comments inline . Mine, too. I will also cut out some currently non-interesting parts, in the interest of saving space. On 04/16/2009 01:59 AM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Thomas, A few questions in the text

Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l

2009-04-17 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:22:11 Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 02:41:05 Thomas Kaiser wrote: Hello Theodore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Also, after the byte indicator

Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l

2009-04-17 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: On Friday 17 April 2009 12:50:51 Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:22:11 Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: snip ff ff 00 ff 96 64 d0 c1 5c c6 00 00 ff ff 00 ff

Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l (headers)

2009-04-20 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Kyle Guinn wrote: On Friday 17 April 2009 12:50:51 Theodore Kilgore wrote: snip But I have never seen the 0x64 0xX0 bytes used to count the frames. Could you tell me how to repeat that? It certainly would knock down the validity of the above table wouldn't

Re: RFC on proposed patches to mr97310a.c for gspca and v4l (headers)

2009-04-20 Thread Theodore Kilgore
4e 02 fb f7 Header: ff ff 00 ff 96 64 d0 0c a3 02 eb f2 Header: ff ff 00 ff 96 65 50 0e c5 01 db d5 ... and so on... Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Digital compact cameras that can be used as video devices?

2009-04-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. If there is no other list dealing with this kind of inquiry, then clearly the questions are not outside of the scope of the mailing list. Thanks in advance! Robin -- Hoping that this helps some, and hoping that some others can fill in the blanks that I left. Theodore Kilgore

Re: Digital compact cameras that can be used as video devices?

2009-04-29 Thread Theodore Kilgore
in streaming mode, too. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Donating a mr97310 based elta-media 8212dc (0x093a:0x010e)

2009-04-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
seen either one of these two cameras. The first one was reported to me, just like the one which you are offering to us. Also might you be interested to try it out as a still camera, with libgphoto2, before surrendering it to someone else? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: working on webcam driver

2009-05-14 Thread Theodore Kilgore
for your particular camera. The matter would be more clear if the Vendor and Product ID numbers are known. Theodore Kilgore

Re: How to interpret error codes for usb_control_msg()?

2009-05-15 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote: snip Anyone have any good and clever ideas? I suggest that you ask on the USB mailing list (linux-...@vger.kernel.org). It occurs to me that the problem may

Preliminary results with an SN9C2028 camera

2009-05-15 Thread Theodore Kilgore
a USB snoop of it starting up to do streaming? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Preliminary results with an SN9C2028 camera

2009-05-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: On 05/16/2009 12:31 AM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: I decided recently to work on support for the SN9C2028 dual-mode cameras, which are supported as still cameras in libgphoto2/camlibs/sonix. Today, I succeeded in getting three frames out of one

What is libv4lconvert/sn9c202x.c for?

2009-05-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
scheme at all but something entirely different. Hence my question. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH] to libv4lconvert, to do decompression for sn9c2028 cameras

2009-05-23 Thread Theodore Kilgore
it for libv4lconvert. The history and antecedents of this algorithm are described in libgphoto2/camlibs/sonix/README.sonix, which was Copyright (C) 2005 Theodore Kilgore kilg...@auburn.edu, as follows: The decompression algorithm originates, I understand, in the work of Bertrik Sikkens

Re: Licensing question regarding SN9C2028 decompression (fwd)

2009-05-27 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Hans, Here is the answer which I got about the question of GPL-LGPL licensing in regard to the sn9c2028 decompression code. Theodore Kilgore -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:19:46 -0400 From: Harald h...@users.sourceforge.net To: Theodore Kilgore kilg

Re: Licensing question regarding SN9C2028 decompression (fwd)

2009-05-28 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: On 05/27/2009 11:43 PM, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Hans, Here is the answer which I got about the question of GPL-LGPL licensing in regard to the sn9c2028 decompression code. Hmm, Given that you did have contact with the original author years

Re: Creating a V4L driver for a USB camera

2009-06-03 Thread Theodore Kilgore
. Of course, I said above basic driver. That does not include things like color balance, contrast, or brightness controls. Such would probably take a little bit longer. From what I read here, I think you will have good luck if you follow through with this project. Theodore Kilgore (Greetings

Re: Creating a V4L driver for a USB camera

2009-06-04 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:02:37 +1000 Theodore Kilgore kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: Well, if you are interested in using the camera as a still camera, then probably you ought also to send an inquiry over to gphoto-de

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-18 Thread Theodore Kilgore
is happening with your camera is, it is using something like JPEG in stillcam mode? If so, it might possibly send down JPEG frames in webcam mode, too. Perhaps with the use of SnoopyPro or such, it is possible to find out? Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:43 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: Interesting. To answer your question, I have no idea off the top of my head. I do have what seems to be a similar camera. It is Bus 005 Device 006

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 12:47 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:43 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: Interesting. To answer your question, I have

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 12:47 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:43 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: Interesting. To answer your question, I have

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 19:26 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 12:47 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:43 -0500, Theodore

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-20 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:38 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Now it is using the other pair of endpoints, 0x03 and 0x84. H. I wonder if we can use them anyway, without being connected in webcam mode. Nope. That was the previously mentioned bug

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-20 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 15:23 -0400, Andy Walls wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:38 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Now it is using the other pair of endpoints, 0x03 and 0x84. H. I wonder if we can use them anyway, without being connected

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-21 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:04 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Sure looks that way. I took a closer look at the lines starting with ff ff ff ff strings, and I found a couple more things. Here are several lines from an extract from that snoop, consisting

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-21 Thread Theodore Kilgore
not laugh at the fact that you get two copies of 3 x6 -- side by side, please. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Sakar 57379 USB Digital Video Camera...

2009-06-22 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 22:39 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: Andy, You are right. Your camera is emitting JPEG while streaming. I just succeeded in creating an image which resembles your test picture by extracting the frame data for one frame, tacking

Re: [PATCH 1/3] gspca pac7302/pac7311: simplify pac_find_sof

2009-11-01 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Kaiser tho...@kaiser-linux.li Cc: Theodore Kilgore kilg...@auburn.edu Cc: Kyle Guinn ely...@gmail.com snip Szia Marton, As long as these things work, I would not mind at all. But perhaps this is a good occasion to bring up an issue which seems to me very much related. It is the following

Re: [PATCH 1/3] gspca pac7302/pac7311: simplify pac_find_sof

2009-11-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Németh Márton wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Németh Márton wrote: Remove struct sd dependency from pac_find_sof() function implementation. This step prepares separation of pac7302 and pac7311 specific parts of struct sd. [...] But here is the point

Re: [PATCH 1/3] gspca pac7302/pac7311: simplify pac_find_sof

2009-11-02 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Németh Márton wrote: Theodore Kilgore írta: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Németh Márton wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Németh Márton wrote: Remove struct sd dependency from pac_find_sof() function implementation. This step prepares separation of pac7302

[PATCH] which fixes works on OHCI and fails on UHCI problem for mr97310a cameras

2009-11-14 Thread Theodore Kilgore
of them. Theodore Kilgore Signed off by: Theodore Kilgore kilg...@auburn.edu - diff -r 577440e8b8df linux/drivers/media/video/gspca/mr97310a.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/video/gspca/mr97310a.cSun Nov 01 17:09:15 2009

Re: SPCA1527A/SPCA1528 (micro)SD camera in webcam mode

2010-05-30 Thread Theodore Kilgore
many times the FF D9 is coming up in the data. There may be a pattern to that. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Gspca-gl860 driver update

2010-05-31 Thread Theodore Kilgore
: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Congratulations. Nice. Theodore Kilgore

Re: gspca in the LinuxTv wiki

2009-03-23 Thread Theodore Kilgore
other examples, too. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: gspca in the LinuxTv wiki

2009-03-24 Thread Theodore Kilgore
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: But OTOH this causes a problem, too, because the manufacturers of cameras (probably some of them are not exactly manufacturers but rather packagers) are switching the electronics inside the device any time they feel like

Re: v4l-utils migrated to autotools

2012-01-18 Thread Theodore Kilgore
not see it as a serious one. The problem is that one's tools have to be up to date. That is up to the distro. But it is probably well known that some distros are better at keeping up with things like this than are others. Theodore Kilgore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

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