Re: 720p webcam providing VDPAU-compatible video stream?

[Csillag Kristof <csillag.kristof@gmail.com>]

At 2012-01-24 15:16, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Kristof,
>
> On Monday 23 January 2012 17:31:13 Csillag Kristof wrote:
>> At 2012-01-23 15:41, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>> I think your best bet is still UVC + H.264, as that's what the market is
>>> moving to. Any other compressed format (except for MJPEG) will likely be
>>> proprietary.
>>>
>>> As you correctly mention, H.264 support isn't available yet in the UVC
>>> driver. Patches are welcome ;-)
>> So... do I understand it correctly that with the current hw/sw stack, my
>> original requirements can not be satisfied?
> Not that I'm aware of.
OK, thank you for confirming that. In this case, I will just give this 
up, for now.

>> In that case, let's try with reduced requirements. What if I give up HD
>> resolution and H264?
>>
>> Is there a camera that can provide a HW-compressed 480p video stream, in
>> MPEG-2 or something like that?
> I don't think so. Once again, unless you can work with MJPEG, your best bet is
> UVC and H.264. But you will need to write the code (or find someone who can
> write it).
>
I could definitely write the code, but I wish to spend my (severely 
limited) time and resources on other projects.

Thank you for your help anyway:

     Kristof