Re: [pygame] Camera module change proposal

2009-05-18 Thread Nirav Patel
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM, René Dudfield wrote: > > > We can't decide on a final API at this point.  Better to wait until we find > out what each one can do.  Marking it final before getting into the > implementation won't work. > > It's definitely time to discuss the API, just not marking i

Re: [pygame] Camera module change proposal

2009-05-18 Thread René Dudfield
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Nirav Patel wrote: > Hello all, > > With 1.9 coming out soon, I think it is best that we decide on a final > API for the camera module to use going forward. The current module > was designed largely for v4l2 on low performance fixed point CPUs, and > the API refl

Re: [pygame] Camera module change proposal

2009-05-18 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Hello Nirav, For #1, I can say that YUV colorspace is much faster than RGB to upload to the graphic card when using OpenGL. If for now it is only RGB that is implemented, it would surely be nice to have the possibilty to use YUV directly in a near future. For #2, on Mac OS X, there is at least th

[pygame] Camera module change proposal

2009-05-18 Thread Nirav Patel
Hello all, With 1.9 coming out soon, I think it is best that we decide on a final API for the camera module to use going forward. The current module was designed largely for v4l2 on low performance fixed point CPUs, and the API reflects that. With OS X support coming this summer from Werner, and