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diff --git a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst b/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst deleted file mode 100644 index a572996cdbf6..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,134 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -.. 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 -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. - -Grabbing is supported in packed YUV colorspace only. - -MJPEG hardware grabbing is supported via a private API (see below). - -Hardware supported ------------------- - -This driver supports the 'second' version of the MotionEye camera :) - -The first version was connected directly on the video bus of the Neomagic -video card and is unsupported. - -The second one, made by Kawasaki Steel is fully supported by this -driver (PCI vendor/device is 0x136b/0xff01) - -The third one, present in recent (more or less last year) Picturebooks -(C1M* models), is not supported. The manufacturer has given the specs -to the developers under a NDA (which allows the development of a GPL -driver however), but things are not moving very fast (see -http://r-engine.sourceforge.net/) (PCI vendor/device is 0x10cf/0x2011). - -There is a forth model connected on the USB bus in TR1* Vaio laptops. -This camera is not supported at all by the current driver, in fact -little information if any is available for this camera -(USB vendor/device is 0x054c/0x0107). - -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 ----------- - -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: - - xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 640x480 - or - xawtv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240 - - motioneye (<http://popies.net/meye/>) - for getting ppm or jpg snapshots, mjpeg video - -Private API ------------ - -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. - -This interface consists of several ioctls (prototypes and structures -can be found in include/linux/meye.h): - -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_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 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. - -Bugs / Todo ------------ - -- 'motioneye' still uses the meye private v4l1 API extensions. |