Re: [android-kernel] Implement Camera Support for Android Emulator using Web Cam

2010-05-03 Thread Thisara Rupasinghe
Thanks for your comments. So as far as i know about the emulator, it uses some actual hardware devices of the computer and some are emulated instead of the actual device. Therefore where this differentiate happens, to call actual hardware device or emulated feature. Is it from HAL(Hardware abstrac

Re: [android-kernel] Implement Camera Support for Android Emulator using Web Cam

2010-04-27 Thread sanjeev sharma
Hi, You can talk to hardware device from emulator.One example is connect your modem to emulator through serial device and send AT commands to Modem. sanjeev On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Thisara Rupasinghe wrote: > Hi Karthik, > > Thank you very much for ur comments. > Within the emulator

Re: [android-kernel] Implement Camera Support for Android Emulator using Web Cam

2010-04-17 Thread Thisara Rupasinghe
Hi Karthik, Thank you very much for ur comments. Within the emulator didnt it talk to any hardware devices on the machine? Is there anyone knows abt this pls help... Can we talk to webcam from the QEMU ARM environment, that is from the android emulator and the changes need to be done? On Sat, Ap

Re: [android-kernel] Implement Camera Support for Android Emulator using Web Cam

2010-04-17 Thread karthik poduval
Hi, To implement a camera device in Android, you need to write a new Camera HAL layer. Now between the emulator and real device, there is different HAL for emulator and a different one for the real device. Now the emulator Camera HAL is basically something that generates a dummy video frame(like a

[android-kernel] Implement Camera Support for Android Emulator using Web Cam

2010-04-17 Thread Thisara Rupasinghe
Hi, I'm interested in implementing the Camera support for Android emulator using webcam. Therefore these days im looking into android emulators source code for get some information regarding this. And I'm thinking of using GStreamer for access webcam. But since this is linux library this wont wor