[st-ericsson] v4l2 vs omx for camera

[Edward Hervey]

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:47 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On Saturday, February 26, 2011 14:38:50 Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> > >> > Perhaps GStreamer experts would like to comment on the future plans ahead
> > >> > for zero copying/IPC and low power HW use cases? Could Gstreamer adapt
> > >> > some ideas from OMX IL making OMX IL obsolete?
> > >>
> > >> perhaps OMX should adapt some of the ideas from GStreamer ;-)
> > >
> > > I'd very much like to see GStreamer (or something else, maybe lower level, but
> > > community-maintainted) replace OMX.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be great to have something that wraps all the hardware
> > acceleration and could have support for software codecs too, all in a
> > standard interface. It would also be great if this interface would be
> > used in the upper layers like GStreamer, VLC, etc. Kind of what OMX
> > was supposed to be, but open [1].
> > 
> > Oh wait, I'm describing FFmpeg :) (supports vl42, VA-API, VDPAU,
> > DirectX, and soon OMAP3 DSP)
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/GstOpenMAX?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=gst-openmax.png
> > 
> > 
> 
> Are there any gstreamer/linaro/etc core developers attending the ELC in San Francisco
> in April? I think it might be useful to get together before, during or after the
> conference and see if we can turn this discussion in something more concrete.
> 
> It seems to me that there is an overall agreement of what should be done, but
> that we are far from anything concrete.
> 

  I will be there and this was definitely a topic I intended to talk
about.
  See you there.

     Edward

> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
>