Bringing in my boys. Robert, Linus, what say you?
On 07/02/11 12:33, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2011, Sachin Gupta wrote: >> In Multimedia WG we have been posed with a question regarding best way >> to expose low level API for camera.so this a questions mainly about pros and >> cons of v4l2 and omx over each other.So to involve a wider community to >> discuss this topic I am floating this mail on linaro-dev.Please share your >> view/experiences.Also please involve any body else in this mail who can >> provide valuable inputs on this. > I've had to look up with "omx" actually stands for [1][2], but from > an outsider view, they don't seem to be mutually exclusive or even > competing interfaces. v4l2 is the interface you use to get at camera > data, in whatever format the camera gives you. There are no alternatives > to that. OpenMax gives you a way to accelerate video codecs, which > is good, but this sits a layer higher up in the stack. Supporting omx > is probably a good idea, but would be totally optional. > > Arnd > > [1] http://www.khronos.org/openmax/ > [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/GstOpenMAX > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
