Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2

Pavel Machek
2017-04-25T11:23:40Z

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Hi!
On Tue 2017-04-25 10:08:15, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2017 10:05:38 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > It would be nice if more than one application could be accessing the
> > > > camera at the same time... (I.e. something graphical running preview
> > > > then using command line tool to grab a picture.) This one is
> > > > definitely not solveable inside a library...
> > >
> > > Someone once suggested to have something like pulseaudio for V4L.
> > > For such usage, a server would be interesting. Yet, I would code it
> > > in a way that applications using libv4l will talk with such daemon
> > > in a transparent way.
> >
> > Yes, we need something like pulseaudio for V4L. And yes, we should
> > make it transparent for applications using libv4l.
>
> IIRC there is already some effort in writing such "video" server which
> would support accessing more application into webcam video, like
> pulseaudio server for accessing more applications to microphone input.

Do you have project name / url / something?

Thanks,