Re: User-Mode Video Driver

Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> A user-mode video driver (umvd), based on gspca v2 is available in
> my page.
> 
> It uses the source of the subdrivers found in gspca v2, and so, it
> handles the same webcams as gspca v1 and v2.
> 
> It is composed of a "pipe" driver installed in the kernel and a
> process. This process does the USB exchanges and the frame decoding
> (actually JPEG to YUYV / RGB24 and Bayer to YUYV). So, you have v4l1
> and v4l2 available at the kernel video interface and frame formats
> suitable for most applications (no, camorama does not work!).
> 

Good work!

Unfortunately I've not been able to work as much on gscpav2 as I wanted, I hope 
to find time in the near future to finish up my locking work, and do testing 
and if necessary fixing for the 2 sn9c10x cam's I've laying over here.

Regards,

Hans

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