> -----Original Message----- > From: Guennadi Liakhovetski [mailto:g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:20 PM > To: Laurent Pinchart > Cc: Bhupesh SHARMA; linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: soc-camera: Benefits of soc-camera interface over specific > char drivers that use Gstreamer lib > > 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;) > That's correct Guennadi :) The choice I have to make is to between v4ls (soc-camera) vs. a specific video char driver written to support android-style applications. Also I am not sure about how gstreamer over framebuffer can interface with such a design and the respective merits/demerits. Regards, Bhupesh -- 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
