Re: [ANN] Notes on IRC meeting on new sensor control interface, 2012-01-09 14:00 GMT+2

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Hi Sakari,

On Tuesday 10 January 2012 00:26:46 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Monday 09 January 2012 23:32:06 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> >> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> On Monday 09 January 2012 18:38:25 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> ...
> 
> >>>> A fourth section may be required as well: at this level the frame rate
> >>>> (or frame time) range makes more sense than the low-level blanking
> >>>> values. The blanking values can be calculated from the frame time and
> >>>> a flag which tells whether either horizontal or vertical blanking
> >>>> should be preferred.
> >>> 
> >>> How does one typically select between horizontal and vertical blanking
> >>> ? Do mixed modes make sense ?
> >> 
> >> There are minimums and maximums for both. You can increase the frame
> >> time by increasing value for either or both of them --- to achieve very
> >> long frame times you may have to use both, but that's not very common in
> >> practice. I think we should have a flag to tell which one should be
> >> increased first --- the effect would be to have the minimum possible
> >> value on the other.
> > 
> > But how do you decide in practice which one to increase when you're an
> > application (or middleware) developer ?
> 
> I think it's the responsibility of this library to do that, unless the
> user wants really, really precise control in which case they have to
> deal with the blanking values directly. In general it should be the
> library.

And how does the library decide ? :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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