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From: Andrea <audetto@tiscali.it>
To: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: prototype of a USB v4l2 driver? gspca?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:10:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487FB55C.6000506@tiscali.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487F6676.1080403@hhs.nl>

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Markus Rechberger wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> 
>>
>> I guess quite a few drivers have extra features which might be missing
>> in other usb based ones. Best is probably to have a look at all
>> available ones and cherry pick the best ideas and easiest to
>> understand parts.
>> I think they are all on a certain level of quality right now.
>>
>> * gspca
>> * uvcvideo
>> * em28xx from mcentral.de
>>
> 
> Well these 3 drivers (in case of gscpa driver group) target different 
> classes of hardware:
> gspca:     pre uvc webcams (and nothing more then that)
> uvcvideo:  uvc devices
> em28xx:    em28xx based devices, which can be dvd, analogtv, webcam, 
> etc, etc.
> 

I think my task is pretty limited to a webcam.
So I will start from gspca and try to work my way through it.
I am a bit scared by the size of em28xx, which seems to profide too many features for my level of 
understanding.

Andrea

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 21:13 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
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 [this message]

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