From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philipp Zabel Subject: Re: 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) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:26:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1489656360.2303.2.camel@pengutronix.de> References: <20170310125342.7f047acf@vento.lan> <20170310223714.GI3220@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk> <20170311082549.576531d0@vento.lan> <20170313124621.GA10701@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk> <20170314004533.3b3cd44b@vento.lan> <20170314072143.498cde9b@vento.lan> <20170314223254.GA7141@amd> <20170314215420.6fc63c67@vento.lan> <20170315105049.GA12099@frolo.macqel> <1489604109.4593.4.camel@ndufresne.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1489604109.4593.4.camel-dDhyB4GVkw9AFePFGvp55w@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nicolas Dufresne Cc: Philippe De Muyter , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Pavel Machek , Hans Verkuil , Sakari Ailus , Russell King - ARM Linux , Steve Longerbeam , robh+dt-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, mark.rutland-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org, shawnguo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, kernel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org, fabio.estevam-3arQi8VN3Tc@public.gmane.org, mchehab-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, nick-gcszYUEDH4VrovVCs/uTlw@public.gmane.org, markus.heiser-O6JHGLzbNUwb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org, laurent.pinchart+renesas-ryLnwIuWjnjg/C1BVhZhaw@public.gmane.org, bparrot-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org, sudipm.mukherjee-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, minghsiu.tsai-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, tiffany.lin-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, jean-christophe.trotin-qxv4g6HH51o@public.gmane.org, horms+renesas-/R6kz+dDXgpPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org, niklas.soderlund+renesas-1zkq55x86MTxsAP9Fp7wbw@public.gmane.org, robert.jarzmik-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org, songjun.wu-UWL1GkI3JZL3oGB3hsPCZA@public.gmane.org, andre List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 14:55 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote: > Le mercredi 15 mars 2017 à 11:50 +0100, Philippe De Muyter a écrit : > > > 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 > > While it would be nice if somehow you would get v4l2src to work (in > some legacy/emulation mode through libv4l2), v4l2src works just fine, provided the pipeline is configured manually in advance via media-ctl. > the longer plan is to > implement smart bin that handle several v4l2src, that can do the > required interactions so we can expose similar level of controls as > found in Android Camera HAL3, and maybe even further assuming userspace > can change the media tree at run-time. We might be a long way from > there, specially that some of the features depends on how much the > hardware can do. Just being able to figure-out how to build the MC tree > dynamically seems really hard when thinking of generic mechanism. Also, > Request API will be needed. > > I think for this one, we'll need some userspace driver that enable the > features (not hide them), and that's what I'd be looking for from > libv4l2 in this regard. regards Philipp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html