From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.bcode.com ([150.101.204.108]:18324 "EHLO mail.bcode.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753626AbZFDBwQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:52:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:52:16 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Erik =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpbg==?= , Theodore Kilgore Subject: Re: Creating a V4L driver for a USB camera Message-Id: <20090604115216.513cc41c.erik@bcode.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20090603141350.04cde59b.erik@bcode.com> <62e5edd40906022318l230992b7n34e5178b7e1a7d46@mail.gmail.com> <20090604100110.c837c3df.erik@bcode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:28:38 +1000 Theodore Kilgore wrote: > If this is the case, then it ought not to be terribly difficult to write a > basic driver. If you wanted still camera support, with which I have a bit > more experience than with streaming support, Yep, only interested in still images ATM. > 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. Als need contol over things like this. We have pretty good control over the lighting the camera works under so we tweak contrast/brightness/ whatever in the camera to provide the bext possible image to the image processing. Cheers, Erik -- ======================= erik de castro lopo senior design engineer bCODE level 2, 2a glen street milsons point sydney nsw 2061 australia tel +61 (0)2 9954 4411 fax +61 (0)2 9954 4422 www.bcode.com