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Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2

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Hi!

> > > Please don't add a new application under lib/. It is fine if you want
> > > some testing application, if the ones there aren't enough, but please
> > > place it under contrib/test/.
> > > 
> > > You should likely take a look at v4l2grab first, as it could have
> > > almost everything you would need.  
> > 
> > I really need some kind of video output. v4l2grab is not useful
> > there. v4l2gl might be, but I don't think I have enough dependencies.
> 
> Well, you could use some app to show the snaps that v4l2grab takes.

That would be too slow :-(.

> Yeah, compiling v4l2gl on N9 can indeed be complex. I suspect that it 
> shouldn't hard to compile xawtv there (probably disabling some optional
> features).

I do have mplayer working, but that one is not linked against libv4l2
:-(.

> > Umm, and it looks like libv4l can not automatically convert from
> > GRBG10.. and if it could, going through RGB24 would probably be too
> > slow on this device :-(.
> 
> I suspect it shouldn't be hard to add support for GRBG10. It already
> supports 8 and 16 bits Bayer formats, at lib/libv4lconvert/bayer.c
> (to both RGB and YUV formats).

Is 16bit bayer a recent development? I can't see it in

commit 374806e868f5a7a48ecffde4c6a1abfcfa5ccd65
Author: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 22 09:31:57 2016 +0200

> > Is there an example using autogain/autowhitebalance from
> > libv4lconvert?
> 
> Well, if you plug a USB camera without those controls, it should
> automatically expose controls for it, as if the device had such
> controls.

And settings are persistent, so I can enable autogain, then lauch
something like xawtv, and it will automatically get autogain? Ok,
good.

Regards,
									Pavel
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Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-25 00:10 +0200
  Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-04-25 04:00 +0200
    Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-25 10:30 +0200
    Re: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-04-25 13:30 +0200

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