On 07/02/11 12:33, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 07 February 2011, Sachin Gupta wrote:
>> In Multimedia WG we have been posed with a question regarding best way
>> to expose low level API for camera.so this a questions mainly about pros and
>> cons of v4l2 and omx over each other.So to involve a wider community to
>> discuss this topic I am floating this mail on linaro-dev.Please share your
>> view/experiences.Also please involve any body else in this mail who can
>> provide valuable inputs on this.
> I've had to look up with "omx" actually stands for [1][2], but from
> an outsider view, they don't seem to be mutually exclusive or even
> competing interfaces. v4l2 is the interface you use to get at camera
> data, in whatever format the camera gives you. There are no alternatives
> to that. OpenMax gives you a way to accelerate video codecs, which
> is good, but this sits a layer higher up in the stack. Supporting omx
> is probably a good idea, but would be totally optional.
>
> Arnd
>
> [1]
http://www.khronos.org/openmax/> [2]
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/GstOpenMAX
>