On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:03 +0300, Panagiotis Vartholomeos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 1394 camera (PixeLink A661) that does not comply with the IIDC
> specifications. Nonetheless it is very important to me to operate this camera
> using Real Time Linux (Linux in general). Is this possible? As far as I know
> cameras not complying with IIDC are not openly supported by Coriander lib1394
> etc...
> Could you proppose any alternative or any kind of solution (apart from buying
> a new camera)?
If you know the register map of the camera you can use libdc1394
register access functions to directly talk to the camera. Capture should
be OK provided that you can get the video mode characteristics from the
camera (packets per frame,...). I did that some time ago for an ISG
line-scan camera and it worked. It was painful though...
Damien
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