From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sakari Ailus Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP2 camera and TCM825x sensor drivers Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:08:18 +0200 Message-ID: <45EEAB32.4090804@nokia.com> References: <9C23CDD79DA20A479D4615857B2E2C475C9FE7@dlee13.ent.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9C23CDD79DA20A479D4615857B2E2C475C9FE7@dlee13.ent.ti.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com Errors-To: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com To: "ext Syed Mohammed, Khasim" Cc: linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org ext Syed Mohammed, Khasim wrote: >>> do you have any kind of design doc or ppt that >>> gives a brief overview of what the code is and the interface > considered > > Sakari, taking this back :) Sorry was kind of used to these for a while. Good, as I didn't have any. ;) >>> Do you mean "rotation" of the preview window ? See, preview in camera >>> driver is just a add-on functionality _but_ not must. I would not use >>> this auto preview functionality, instead captured stream will go to >>> /dev/fb1 and then shown on the LCD/TV out and rotated based on the >>> N800 sensor or app commands. > > Trilok, this may be your use case but not true for all OMAP users :) > Few take preview seriously; I have seen demands for a preview with > rotation/mirroring/cropping/scaling :) Again it's as per demands. > Why to send a data to app that is not getting stored? Is there a real life use case where even preview is really useful? Or necessary? (I'm asking because I can't figure anything immediately. Except maybe something like xawtv, but for a camera. :)) -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@nokia.com