Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Pro

[Laurent P. <lau...@sk...>]

> > > im currently looking through the libng source code (included in the CVS
> > > version of aMSN, utils/linux/capture/libng), and i really dont know
> > > where to start. I cant find (or  just blind to) the YUYV converter in
> > > the code, and assuming i can find it, still not sure where to put the
> > > mjpeg decoder
> >
> > Try to ask the aMSN developers.
> >
> > The best solution to that problem would probably to have a v4l user-space
> > library which would handle decompression in user-space (this would also
> > have the benefit to make user-space drivers possible).
>
> I'm currently trying to change my libpwc to be able to decompress the MJPEG
> buffer and convert it in YUV420P or RGB24. So perhaps one day, we will have
> a v4l2 library like in the alsa world. As i've a pretty small decoder, this
> can be embeded in a lot of applications. But i don't known if more
> developper will want to use the tiny library, so for the moment, it's just
> a small pixel format convertion library.

Should we raise the topic on the video4linux mailing list ?

Laurent Pinchart