-Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Camera Driver Readme
-------------------------------------------------
- Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
- Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Alcôve <www.alcove.com>
- Copyright (C) 2000 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Camera Driver
+=========================================
+
+Copyright |copy| 2001-2004 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
+
+Copyright |copy| 2001-2002 Alcôve <www.alcove.com>
+
+Copyright |copy| 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 Laptop Extras" driver (which
MJPEG hardware grabbing is supported via a private API (see below).
-Hardware supported:
--------------------
+Hardware supported
+------------------
This driver supports the 'second' version of the MotionEye camera :)
little information if any is available for this camera
(USB vendor/device is 0x054c/0x0107).
-Driver options:
----------------
+Driver options
+--------------
Several options can be passed to the meye driver using the standard
module argument syntax (<param>=<value> when passing the option to the
module or meye.<param>=<value> on the kernel boot line when meye is
statically linked into the kernel). Those options are:
+.. code-block:: none
+
gbuffers: number of capture buffers, default is 2 (32 max)
gbufsize: size of each capture buffer, default is 614400
video_nr: video device to register (0 = /dev/video0, etc)
-Module use:
------------
+Module use
+----------
In order to automatically load the meye module on use, you can put those lines
in your /etc/modprobe.d/meye.conf file:
+.. code-block:: none
+
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 meye
options meye gbuffers=32
Usage:
------
+.. code-block:: none
+
xawtv >= 3.49 (<http://bytesex.org/xawtv/>)
for display and uncompressed video capture:
motioneye (<http://popies.net/meye/>)
for getting ppm or jpg snapshots, mjpeg video
-Private API:
-------------
+Private API
+-----------
- The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API,
- 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,
- agc, video framerate), the shapshot and the MJPEG capture facilities.
+Besides the video4linux interface, the driver has a private interface
+for accessing the Motion Eye extended parameters (camera sharpness,
+agc, video framerate), the shapshot and the MJPEG capture facilities.
- This interface consists of several ioctls (prototypes and structures
- can be found in include/linux/meye.h):
+This interface consists of several ioctls (prototypes and structures
+can be found in include/linux/meye.h):
- MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS
- MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS
- Get and set the extended parameters of the motion eye camera.
- The user should always query the current parameters with
- MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS, change what he likes and then issue the
- MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS call (checking for -EINVAL). The extended
- parameters are described by the meye_params structure.
+MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS and MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS
+ Get and set the extended parameters of the motion eye camera.
+ The user should always query the current parameters with
+ MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS, change what he likes and then issue the
+ MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS call (checking for -EINVAL). The extended
+ parameters are described by the meye_params structure.
- MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT
- Queue a buffer for capture (the buffers must have been
- obtained with a VIDIOCGMBUF call and mmap'ed by the
- application). The argument to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT is the
- buffer number to queue (or -1 to end capture). The first
- call to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT starts the streaming capture.
+MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT
+ Queue a buffer for capture (the buffers must have been
+ obtained with a VIDIOCGMBUF call and mmap'ed by the
+ application). The argument to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT is the
+ buffer number to queue (or -1 to end capture). The first
+ call to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT starts the streaming capture.
- MEYEIOC_SYNC
- Takes as an argument the buffer number you want to sync.
- This ioctl blocks until the buffer is filled and ready
- for the application to use. It returns the buffer size.
+MEYEIOC_SYNC
+ Takes as an argument the buffer number you want to sync.
+ This ioctl blocks until the buffer is filled and ready
+ for the application to use. It returns the buffer size.
- MEYEIOC_STILLCAPT
- MEYEIOC_STILLJCAPT
- Takes a snapshot in an uncompressed or compressed jpeg format.
- This ioctl blocks until the snapshot is done and returns (for
- jpeg snapshot) the size of the image. The image data is
- available from the first mmap'ed buffer.
+MEYEIOC_STILLCAPT and MEYEIOC_STILLJCAPT
+ Takes a snapshot in an uncompressed or compressed jpeg format.
+ This ioctl blocks until the snapshot is done and returns (for
+ jpeg snapshot) the size of the image. The image data is
+ available from the first mmap'ed buffer.
- Look at the 'motioneye' application code for an actual example.
+Look at the 'motioneye' application code for an actual example.
-Bugs / Todo:
-------------
+Bugs / Todo
+-----------
- - 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions.
+- 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions.