On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Bhupesh, > > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 06:57:11 Bhupesh SHARMA wrote: > > Hi Guennadi, > > > > As I mentioned in one of my previous mails , we are developing a Camera > > Host and Sensor driver for our ST specific SoC and considering using the > > soc-camera framework for the same. One of our open-source customers has > > raised a interesting case though: > > > > It seems they have an existing solution (for another SoC) in which they do > > not use V4L2 framework and instead use the Gstreamer with framebuffer. > > They specifically wish us to implement a solution which is compatible with > > ANDROID applications. > > > > Could you please help us in deciding which approach is preferable in terms > > of performance, maintenance and ease-of-design. > > That's a difficult question that can't be answered without more details about > your SoC. Could you share some documentation, such as a high-level block > diagram of the video-related blocks in the SoC ? Laurent, IIUC, the choice above referred not to soc-camera vs. plain v4l2, but to v4l2 vs. original android-style video character device, which doesn't seem so difficult to me;) Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- 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
