diff options
| author | Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> | 2004-11-07 04:01:28 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-11-07 04:01:28 -0800 |
| commit | 773f7f2fa37aeb880efc24299f0b8efb2259bda0 (patch) | |
| tree | 79948abbeef1595205a11bb8536b68689609523c /Documentation | |
| parent | 4a5f5e21dd11d0153e30f633ac3d851385579384 (diff) | |
| download | history-773f7f2fa37aeb880efc24299f0b8efb2259bda0.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] meye: add v4l2 support
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt index 418b48599caa41..05e18fa49766c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ module argument syntax (<param>=<value> when passing the option to the module or meye.<param>=<value> on the kernel boot line when meye is statically linked into the kernel). Those options are: + forcev4l1: force use of V4L1 API instead of V4L2 + gbuffers: number of capture buffers, default is 2 (32 max) gbufsize: size of each capture buffer, default is 614400 @@ -78,8 +80,9 @@ Usage: Private API: ------------ - The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API, so - all video4linux tools (like xawtv) should work with this driver. + The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API + (either v4l1 or v4l2), so all video4linux tools (like xawtv) + should work with this driver. Besides the video4linux interface, the driver has a private interface for accessing the Motion Eye extended parameters (camera sharpness, @@ -121,13 +124,7 @@ Private API: Bugs / Todo: ------------ - - overlay output is not supported (although the camera is capable of). - (it should not be too hard to to it, provided we found how...) - - - mjpeg hardware playback doesn't work (depends on overlay...) + - the driver could be much cleaned up by removing the v4l1 support. + However, this means all v4l1-only applications will stop working. - - rewrite the driver to use some common video4linux API for snapshot - and mjpeg capture. Unfortunately, video4linux1 does not permit it, - the BUZ API seems to be targeted to TV cards only. The video4linux 2 - API may be an option, if it goes into the kernel (maybe 2.5 - material ?). + - 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions. |