Re: Capturing video and still images using one driver

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(removed the deprecated video ML from CC)

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Neil Johnson wrote:

> Guennadi,
> 
> Your suggestions do work well, though my implementation is not ideal.
> However, I am now able to switch between high res capture and low res
> capture using S_FMT.  I made the switch to using user-ptr buffers in
> user space, and now I allocate both large still image buffers and
> smaller video buffers when my app starts.  Then, I switch from video
> to still image capture (always using streaming, not read()), and then
> switch back to video when needed.

You meqn you stop streaming in your application, requeue buffers of 
different size and restart capture?

> Unfortunately, I'm not a huge expert at making my code fit the
> video4linux model, so I've basically introduced some hacks that make
> it work for me.  I'll try to get my hackish code up to spec so that it
> will possibly be useful for others.

Yep, try to make it as good as possible and in any case send it in for 
others to have a look.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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