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From: Andrea <audetto@tiscali.it>
To: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>, video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: prototype of a USB v4l2 driver?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:39:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4879BF3B.3020005@tiscali.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48790D29.1010404@hhs.nl>

Hans de Goede wrote:
>> This is a good overview of a driver
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/203924/
>>
>> I think vivi.c is an other good one.
>>
>> Does anybody have any other good reference to look at?
>>
> 
> What kind of device, I think that for webcams you;re best using gspca, 
> (now merged in mecurial), that handles all the usb specific stuff, 
> buffer management, etc. In general it makes it easy to write a webcam 
> driver allowing you to focus on the interaction with the cam, rather 
> then having to worry about looking, usb specifics, buffer management etc.
> 

Yes, it is a USB webcam: Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro USB

I will look into gspca and see how it works.

Thanks

Andrea

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-13  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-12 19:40 prototype of a USB v4l2 driver? Andrea
2008-07-12 19:59 ` Hans de Goede
2008-07-13  8:39   ` Andrea [this message]
2008-07-13 11:30   ` prototype of a USB v4l2 driver? gspca? Andrea
2008-07-13 19:29     ` Hans de Goede
2008-07-17 15:31       ` Markus Rechberger
2008-07-17 15:34         ` Hans de Goede
2008-07-17 16:19           ` Markus Rechberger
2008-07-17 21:10           ` Andrea

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