[Gambas-devel] v4l2 patch for gb.v4l

[Ron_1st]

On Friday 20 February 2009, Gareth Bult wrote:
> Erm, which version of Gambas is the patch against?
> (SVN already has full V4L2 support ... ????)
> 
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> From: "Silvan Calarco" <silvan.calarco at ...531...>
> To: "Gambas-devel" <gambas-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, 20 February, 2009 3:32:01 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: [Gambas-devel] v4l2 patch for gb.v4l
> 
> Hello.
> attached is a patch I wrote for a customer who needs support for a v4l2 webcam 
> (it's a Logitech QuickCam 9000 Pro) in gambas. 
> The patch integrates the example code from v4l2 api documentation 
> (http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec/capture-example.html) in a way that should 
> be backwards compatibile (v4l1). The patch is at a basic and ugly level and 
> only supports YUYV to BGR24 pixel format conversion (the function is taken 
> from libv4l though the library could be used for most pixel formats support), 
> but with some work it might be of wider interest so I'm posting it here.
> 
> Silvan
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Still the problems with unknown v4l2 formats.
The include for the inserted videodev.h should be in the C source that needs it, 
not the gambas component that uses the C code generated object.
This way the gambas commponent can't replaced by some other component code
because the .c is more or less corrupt IMHO.

The best would be not to check fantasy formats not supported and tell the
value used in the case into the error message.




Best regards,

Ron_1st

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