From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
To: Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@gmx.de>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Flipping the video from webcams
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487768EA.8080200@hhs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807101924.58802.Rainer.Koenig@gmx.de>
Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a notebook with an integrated webcam and I got a driver (r5u870) that
> works fine with it, except that the camera images I get are all upside down.
> It seems that due to a desgin flaw the camera was assembled upside down and
> there is no easy way to turn it. So I need to rotate the picture with
> software, which practically means "flip X" and "flip Y". I even found some
> bits in the driver that look like they address this issue, but turning them
> to "1" (instead of 0) doesn't help at all.
>
> So I wonder: Is there a way to flip the picture that is coming from the camera
> by setting some options somewhere so that my IM client gets the picture in
> the right orientation?
>
Most of the time there are some bits in the sensor which will flip the
pixelscanorder and thus the image, what sensor does your cam use (OV66xx,
OV73xx, TAS7XX0, ? )
Regards,
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 17:24 Flipping the video from webcams Rainer Koenig
2008-07-10 20:00 ` Thierry Merle
2008-07-11 14:36 ` Rainer Koenig
2008-07-11 14:06 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
[not found] ` <aae5e9b33584111fbf6db53272b5cb5a@localhost>
2008-07-11 14:44 ` Rainer Koenig
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