Are the Pan/Tilt/Zoom controls exposed ? Given that the Kinect can move it actually makes a pretty cheap PTV option for video conferences. -JoelW On 7 December 2010 10:50, Jason <openkinect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/06/2010 04:18 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote: >> Now the hard part begins, here's a loose TODO-list: >> Â - Discuss the "fragmentation problem": >> Â Â Â* the webcam kernel driver and the libusb backend of libfreenect >> Â Â Â Âare not going to conflict each other in practice, but code >> Â Â Â Âduplication could be avoided to some degree; we could start >> Â Â Â Âlisting the advantages and disadvantages of a v4l2 backend >> Â Â Â Âopposed to a libusb backend for video data in libfreenct (don't >> Â Â Â Âthink in terms of userspace/kernelspace for now). > > I've got a patchset in the works for this, just trying to view Y16 from > userspace first... > >> Â Â Â* Would exposing the accelerometer as an input device make sense >> Â Â Â Âtoo? The only reason for that is to use the data in already >> Â Â Â Âexisting applications. And what about led and motor? > > embedded applications may find this helpful... > >> Â Â If we agree that the kernel driver approach is not too dangerous >> Â Â for libfreenect's future, than we could start talking about >> Â Â submitting code to mainline linux. > > always a good idea. ÂI'm pretty sure the motion project [1] could make > use of a v4l device that spits out smoothed depth data... > >> Â - Check if gspca can handle two video nodes for the same USB device >> Â Â in a single driver (Kinect sensor uses ep 0x81 for color data and >> Â Â ep 0x82 for depth data). > > wip. > >> Â - Decide if we want two separate video nodes, or a >> Â Â combined RGB-D data stream coming from a single video device node. >> Â Â (I haven't even looked at the synchronization logic yet). > > There is a timestamp field with every frame passed on by the kinect, can > that be passed up to v4l? > > Also, if we decide to stay with two video nodes, some udev magic could > create: > > /dev/kinect/depth -> ../videoX > /dev/kinect/camera -> ../videoY > /dev/kinect/ir -> ../videoZ > ... > > For consistent naming. > > thx, > > Jason. > > [1] http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- 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
