On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim wrote: > >> Hi Guennadi, >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski >> <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim wrote: >> > >> >> 1. make preview device a video output >> >> => it makes sense. but codec path also has dedicated DMA to frame buffer. >> >> What should we do with that? I have no idea by now. >> > >> > Add a V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_OVERLAY capability and if the user requests >> > V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OVERLAY - configure direct output to framebuffer? >> > >> >> OK that's an idea. Then we can use preview as video output device and >> codec device as a capture device with overlay capability. > > Actually, if I interpret the "Camera interface overview" figure (20-1) > correctly, both capture and output channels have the overlay capability, > so, you can enable it for both of them and configure the respective one > accordingly. You are right. both of them can have overlay capability. I just forgot that It could be configured like that. Thank you. > > Thanks > Guennadi > --- > Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. > Freelance Open-Source Software Developer > -- ======================================================== DongSoo, Nathaniel Kim Engineer Mobile S/W Platform Lab. Digital Media & Communications R&D Centre Samsung Electronics CO., LTD. e-mail : dongsoo.kim@xxxxxxxxx dongsoo45.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx ======================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html