On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 01:02:07PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote: > I think most of the simple, fixed pipeline use cases could be handled by > libv4l2, by allowing to pass a v4l2 subdevice path to v4l2_open. If that > function internally would set up the media links to the > nearest /dev/video interface, propagate format, resolution and frame > intervals if necessary, and return an fd to the video device, there'd be > no additional complexity for the users beyond selecting the v4l2_subdev > instead of the video device. ... which would then require gstreamer to be modified too. The gstreamer v4l2 plugin looks for /dev/video* or /dev/v4l2/video* devices and monitors these for changes, so gstreamer applications know which capture devices are available: const gchar *paths[] = { "/dev", "/dev/v4l2", NULL }; const gchar *names[] = { "video", NULL }; /* Add some depedency, so the dynamic features get updated upon changes in * /dev/video* */ gst_plugin_add_dependency (plugin, NULL, paths, names, GST_PLUGIN_DEPENDENCY_FLAG_FILE_NAME_IS_PREFIX); I haven't checked yet whether sys/v4l2/gstv4l2deviceprovider.c knows anything about the v4l2 subdevs. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel