media / v4l2-mc: wishlist for complex cameras (was Re: [PATCH v4 14/36] [media] v4l2-mc: add a function to inherit controls from a pipeline)

Philippe De Muyter
2017-03-15T10:50:49Z

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:54:31PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:32:54 +0100
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> escreveu:
>
> >
> > Well, I believe first question is: what applications would we want to
> > run on complex devices? Will sending control from video to subdevs
> > actually help?
>
> I would say: camorama, xawtv3, zbar, google talk, skype. If it runs
> with those, it will likely run with any other application.
>

I would like to add the 'v4l2src' plugin of gstreamer, and on the imx6 its
imx-specific counterpart 'imxv4l2videosrc' from the gstreamer-imx package
at https://github.com/Freescale/gstreamer-imx, and 'v4l2-ctl'.

Philippe

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