Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Camera Driver Readme
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Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
- Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Alcôve <www.alcove.com>
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Alcôve <www.alcove.com>
Copyright (C) 2000 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
This driver enable the use of video4linux compatible applications with the
-Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the "Sony Vaio Programmable I/O
-Control Device" driver (which can be found in the "Character drivers"
-section of the kernel configuration utility) to be compiled and installed
-(using its "camera=1" parameter).
+Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the "Sony Laptop Extras" driver (which
+can be found in the "Misc devices" section of the kernel configuration utility)
+to be compiled and installed (using its "camera=1" parameter).
It can do at maximum 30 fps @ 320x240 or 15 fps @ 640x480.
module or meye.<param>=<value> on the kernel boot line when meye is
statically linked into the kernel). Those options are:
- forcev4l1: force use of V4L1 API instead of V4L2
-
gbuffers: number of capture buffers, default is 2 (32 max)
gbufsize: size of each capture buffer, default is 614400
Private API:
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- The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API
- (either v4l1 or v4l2), so all video4linux tools (like xawtv)
- should work with this driver.
+ The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API,
+ so all video4linux tools (like xawtv) should work with this driver.
Besides the video4linux interface, the driver has a private interface
for accessing the Motion Eye extended parameters (camera sharpness,
Bugs / Todo:
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- - the driver could be much cleaned up by removing the v4l1 support.
- However, this means all v4l1-only applications will stop working.
-
- 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions.