Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Gregor Jasny]

Hello,

It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?

Mauro, you tried to re-license the DVB library. What's the status there?

Thanks,
Gregor

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:31:13 +0200
Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> escreveu:

> Hello,
> 
> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> 
> Mauro, you tried to re-license the DVB library. What's the status there?

Hi Gregor,

I was missing one formal ack on that. However, the previous demand of
re-licinsing it as LGPL has gone, as gstreamer developers decided to
implement DVBv5 there directly.

So, I decided to keep it as-is for now, as there's no gain currently on
changing the license.

>From my side, please go ahead and release 1.2 ;)

Regards,
Mauro

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Hans Verkuil]

On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?

I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
I think it's OK to do a release.

Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.

Regards,

	Hans

> Mauro, you tried to re-license the DVB library. What's the status there?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregor
> 

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> > releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> 
> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
> I think it's OK to do a release.
> 
> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.

Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a quick
look.

What apps are you planning to remove?

Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of those
stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick hack
in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be able to
test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).

Regards,
Mauro

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Hans Verkuil]

On 06/21/2014 12:29 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
> 
>> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
>>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
>>
>> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
>> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
>> I think it's OK to do a release.
>>
>> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
>> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.
> 
> Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a quick
> look.

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg76120.html

Marked with ATTN as well!

> 
> What apps are you planning to remove?
> 
> Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of those
> stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick hack
> in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be able to
> test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).

What does v4l2grab offer that v4l2-ctl doesn't? I would be much more inclined
to remove v4l2grab.

Regards,

	Hans

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 08:07:57 +0200
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> On 06/21/2014 12:29 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200
> > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
> > 
> >> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> >>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> >>
> >> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
> >> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
> >> I think it's OK to do a release.
> >>
> >> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
> >> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.
> > 
> > Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a quick
> > look.
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg76120.html
> 
> Marked with ATTN as well!

Well, from my side, feel free to drop those 3 utilities. If you drop v4lgrab,
you'll need to check the DocBook Makefile scripts, as it used to have some
automation to include it at the media DocBook. 

I think that this was removed in the past, but it doesn't hurt to
double-check.

> > 
> > What apps are you planning to remove?
> > 
> > Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of those
> > stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick hack
> > in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be able to
> > test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).
> 
> What does v4l2grab offer that v4l2-ctl doesn't? I would be much more inclined
> to remove v4l2grab.

I never used v4l2-ctl for streaming (didn't even know/remember) that it was
capable of doing that ;) 

Looking at --help-streaming, though, one thing that it is not clear there
is what's the format of the output, when --stream-to= is used. 

Btw, I think that one big miss on v4l2-ctl is the lack of a man page witch
would have an EXAMPLES section explaining things like that.

One of the advantages of v4l2grab is that it takes per-frame snapshots, instead
of writing a stream file. Those snapshots help to identify, for example, if
there are interlacing issues on a frame, or if some frames have some other
problems.

Also, v4l2grab is a good example of how to use libv4l, and it is enclosed
at DocBook (not sure if we're using automation to allow including
the latest version of it):
	http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/v4l2grab-example.html

So, I don't think we should remove it.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Hans Verkuil]

On 06/21/2014 12:53 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 08:07:57 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
> 
>> On 06/21/2014 12:29 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200
>>> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
>>>>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
>>>>
>>>> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
>>>> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
>>>> I think it's OK to do a release.
>>>>
>>>> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
>>>> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.
>>>
>>> Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a quick
>>> look.
>>
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg76120.html
>>
>> Marked with ATTN as well!
> 
> Well, from my side, feel free to drop those 3 utilities. If you drop v4lgrab,
> you'll need to check the DocBook Makefile scripts, as it used to have some
> automation to include it at the media DocBook. 
> 
> I think that this was removed in the past, but it doesn't hurt to
> double-check.
> 
>>>
>>> What apps are you planning to remove?
>>>
>>> Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of those
>>> stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick hack
>>> in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be able to
>>> test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).
>>
>> What does v4l2grab offer that v4l2-ctl doesn't? I would be much more inclined
>> to remove v4l2grab.
> 
> I never used v4l2-ctl for streaming (didn't even know/remember) that it was
> capable of doing that ;) 

It was added about a year ago or something like that.

> Looking at --help-streaming, though, one thing that it is not clear there
> is what's the format of the output, when --stream-to= is used. 

Completely raw output.

> Btw, I think that one big miss on v4l2-ctl is the lack of a man page witch
> would have an EXAMPLES section explaining things like that.

Absolutely. With a bit of luck I might have time for that fairly soon.

> One of the advantages of v4l2grab is that it takes per-frame snapshots, instead
> of writing a stream file. Those snapshots help to identify, for example, if
> there are interlacing issues on a frame, or if some frames have some other
> problems.

You can dump just a single frame as well with v4l2-ctl (--stream-count=1).

> Also, v4l2grab is a good example of how to use libv4l, and it is enclosed
> at DocBook (not sure if we're using automation to allow including
> the latest version of it):
> 	http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/v4l2grab-example.html

Isn't capture.c.xml much more useful as example code? I have to admit, I
didn't know v4l2grab.c was used as an example.

> 
> So, I don't think we should remove it.

No problem.

Regards,

	Hans

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:22:18 +0200
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> On 06/21/2014 12:53 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 08:07:57 +0200
> > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
> > 
> >> On 06/21/2014 12:29 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >>> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200
> >>> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> escreveu:
> >>>
> >>>> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> >>>>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
> >>>> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
> >>>> I think it's OK to do a release.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
> >>>> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.
> >>>
> >>> Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a quick
> >>> look.
> >>
> >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg76120.html
> >>
> >> Marked with ATTN as well!
> > 
> > Well, from my side, feel free to drop those 3 utilities. If you drop v4lgrab,
> > you'll need to check the DocBook Makefile scripts, as it used to have some
> > automation to include it at the media DocBook. 
> > 
> > I think that this was removed in the past, but it doesn't hurt to
> > double-check.
> > 
> >>>
> >>> What apps are you planning to remove?
> >>>
> >>> Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of those
> >>> stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick hack
> >>> in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be able to
> >>> test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).
> >>
> >> What does v4l2grab offer that v4l2-ctl doesn't? I would be much more inclined
> >> to remove v4l2grab.
> > 
> > I never used v4l2-ctl for streaming (didn't even know/remember) that it was
> > capable of doing that ;) 
> 
> It was added about a year ago or something like that.
> 
> > Looking at --help-streaming, though, one thing that it is not clear there
> > is what's the format of the output, when --stream-to= is used. 
> 
> Completely raw output.
> 
> > Btw, I think that one big miss on v4l2-ctl is the lack of a man page witch
> > would have an EXAMPLES section explaining things like that.
> 
> Absolutely. With a bit of luck I might have time for that fairly soon.
> 
> > One of the advantages of v4l2grab is that it takes per-frame snapshots, instead
> > of writing a stream file. Those snapshots help to identify, for example, if
> > there are interlacing issues on a frame, or if some frames have some other
> > problems.
> 
> You can dump just a single frame as well with v4l2-ctl (--stream-count=1).

It is not the same. What I do with v4l2grab is to ask it to capture
30 seconds, storing frame by frame. Then, I can see if each frame is
ok or not.

Btw, capturing just one frame with some webcams with auto bright will
likely just get a black frame.

> 
> > Also, v4l2grab is a good example of how to use libv4l, and it is enclosed
> > at DocBook (not sure if we're using automation to allow including
> > the latest version of it):
> > 	http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/v4l2grab-example.html
> 
> Isn't capture.c.xml much more useful as example code? I have to admit, I
> didn't know v4l2grab.c was used as an example.

I would prefer to remove capture.c, as it doesn't use libv4l. We do
want that newer applications would use libv4l.

> 
> > 
> > So, I don't think we should remove it.
> 
> No problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Mauro,

On Monday 23 June 2014 07:58:37 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:22:18 +0200 Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> > On 06/21/2014 12:53 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 08:07:57 +0200 Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> >>> On 06/21/2014 12:29 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >>>> Em Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:07:19 +0200 Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> >>>>> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
> >>>>>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the
> >>>>> 'installed kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on
> >>>>> Monday. After that I think it's OK to do a release.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps
> >>>>> from contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as
> >>>>> well.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Well, I don't remember about such email, nor I was able to find on a
> >>>> quick look.
> >>> 
> >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg76120.html
> >>> 
> >>> Marked with ATTN as well!
> >> 
> >> Well, from my side, feel free to drop those 3 utilities. If you drop
> >> v4lgrab, you'll need to check the DocBook Makefile scripts, as it used
> >> to have some automation to include it at the media DocBook.
> >> 
> >> I think that this was removed in the past, but it doesn't hurt to
> >> double-check.
> >> 
> >>>> What apps are you planning to remove?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Btw, I think it could be a good idea to be able to install some of
> >>>> those stuff under contrib to a separate package. I had to do a quick
> >>>> hack in order to install v4l2grab on a Tizen package, in order to be
> >>>> able to test a card there (as was needing to do some tests via CLI).
> >>> 
> >>> What does v4l2grab offer that v4l2-ctl doesn't? I would be much more
> >>> inclined to remove v4l2grab.
> >> 
> >> I never used v4l2-ctl for streaming (didn't even know/remember) that it
> >> was capable of doing that ;)
> > 
> > It was added about a year ago or something like that.
> > 
> >> Looking at --help-streaming, though, one thing that it is not clear
> >> there is what's the format of the output, when --stream-to= is used.
> > 
> > Completely raw output.
> > 
> >> Btw, I think that one big miss on v4l2-ctl is the lack of a man page
> >> witch would have an EXAMPLES section explaining things like that.
> > 
> > Absolutely. With a bit of luck I might have time for that fairly soon.
> > 
> >> One of the advantages of v4l2grab is that it takes per-frame snapshots,
> >> instead of writing a stream file. Those snapshots help to identify, for
> >> example, if there are interlacing issues on a frame, or if some frames
> >> have some other problems.
> > 
> > You can dump just a single frame as well with v4l2-ctl (--stream-count=1).
> 
> It is not the same. What I do with v4l2grab is to ask it to capture
> 30 seconds, storing frame by frame. Then, I can see if each frame is
> ok or not.
> 
> Btw, capturing just one frame with some webcams with auto bright will
> likely just get a black frame.
> 
> >> Also, v4l2grab is a good example of how to use libv4l, and it is
> >> enclosed at DocBook (not sure if we're using automation to allow
> >> including the latest version of it):
> >> 	http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/v4l2grab-example.html
> > 
> > Isn't capture.c.xml much more useful as example code? I have to admit, I
> > didn't know v4l2grab.c was used as an example.
> 
> I would prefer to remove capture.c, as it doesn't use libv4l. We do
> want that newer applications would use libv4l.

In most cases we do, but some specialized application still have use cases for 
using the V4L2 kernel API directly. Isn't example code still valuable for them 
?

> >> So, I don't think we should remove it.
> > 
> > No problem.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

Re: Time for v4l-utils 1.2 release?

[Hans Verkuil]

On 06/21/2014 12:07 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 06/20/2014 10:31 PM, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It's been 11 months since the 1.0.0 release. What do you think about
>> releasing HEAD? Do you have any pending commits?
> 
> I've got two patches from Laurent pending that ensure that the 'installed
> kernel headers' are used. I plan on processing those on Monday. After that
> I think it's OK to do a release.
> 
> Mauro, did you look at my email where I suggest to remove three apps from
> contrib? If you agree with that, then I can do that Monday as well.

Gregor,

I'm all done, so you can make a new release whenever you want.

Regards,

	Hans