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Hans de Goede wrote: > On 04/05/2009 01:26 PM, Erik Andrén wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> Hans de Goede wrote: >>> On 04/04/2009 10:22 PM, Erik Andrén wrote: >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> While trying to get hflip and vflip working for the stv06xx webcam >>>> bridge coupled to the vv6410 sensor I've come across the following >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> When flipping the image horizontally, vertically or both, the sensor >>>> pixel ordering changes. In the m5602 driver I was able to compensate >>>> for this in the bridge code. In the stv06xx I don't have this >>>> option. One way of solving this problem is by changing the >>>> pixelformat on the fly, i. e V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGRB8 is the normal >>>> format. When a vertical flip is required, change the format to >>>> V4L2_SBGGR8. >>>> >>>> My current understanding of libv4l is that it probes the pixelformat >>>> upon device open. In order for this to work we would need either >>>> poll the current pixelformat regularly or implement some kind of >>>> notification mechanism upon a flipping request. >>>> >>>> What do you think is this the right way to go or is there another >>>> alternative. >>>> >>> The changing of the pixelformat only happens when you flip the data >>> before conversion. If you look at the current upside down handling >>> code you will see it does the rotate 180 degrees after conversion. >>> >>> This is how the vflip / hflip should be handled too. We only have >>> 4 (2 really since we don't care about r versus b / u versus v while >>> flippiing) destination formats for which we then need to write flipping >>> code. Otherwise we need to write flipping code for *all* supported input >>> formats, not to mention flipping some input formats is close to >>> impossible >>> (JPEG for example). >>> >> >> So you mean we should do the vflip/hflip in software, just exposing >> one native format? >> > > Erm, yes that is what I was saying, but that is because I was confusing > things with the sq905 driver some other people are working on. > Glad that you were confused as I couldn't really make out the meaning of your answer. :) > Now I understand what you were trying to ask. So the problem is that > the vv6410 sensor can do flipping in hardware, and then the order in > which it sends out the pixels changes from gbgbgb (for example) > to bgbgbg, for the lines which have blue, effectively changing the > pixelformat, right? Correct. > > In that case I think the only solution is to simply return -EBUSY when > the vflip / hflip controls are changed while a stream is active. > So this effectively forces a reprobe of the hardware? > As for the race window with one application querying the format (or even > setting it) and then another app changing the flip before the application > which just set the format starts the stream, we already have that wrt 2 > applications doing this: > app a: setformat x > app b: setformat y > app a: start stream (thinking format is x) > > Which is something which normally (luckily) never happens. > If this ever becomes a real issue, shouldn't some kind of user-space master program aquire the device and then handle format requests for all client programs? > Does that sound like a plan ? > Yes, I'll try this ASAP. > Note that this is a solution at the driver level, which IMHO is the only > way as we cannot assume libv4l is always being used. > If it works this sounds like the most clean and elegant solution. The weak point being that the application must try to renegotiate the format upon the -EBUSY signal. Thanks for the help! Regards, Erik > Regards, > > Hans > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknYqtwACgkQN7qBt+4UG0FBgACggwgmVfMKj2bQAj/UVSL/vHSH Ss0Anj/8xoRpXiIzBg3HdtDa0SXK6WK2 =yIxz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
