Panagiotis Vartholomeos wrote:
> Unfortunately it appears that this camera cannot easily be integrated into a
> real time process.
I'd say "this camera cannot easily be integrated into _Linux_" until you
get the documentation. This camera, like IIDC cameras or consumer AV/C
camcorders or webcams, transmits isochronously which means that (hard)
real time capability is provided by all these cameras. And their
programming model is roughly the same as far as video reception is
concerned.
> At this point two questions arise...
>
> How can I use this camera for real time processing (under which OS)?
PixeLINK has software and developer information for two non-realtime
OSs. Ask PixeLINK for programming information under Linux (i.e. RTAI or
RTLinux) or whether they support other RT OSs.
> and If not a 1394-camera system then which camera-system is more supported
> by
> linux libs for real time applications.
IEEE 1394 is certainly the first choice for RT video acquisition. RT
capability is one of the fundamental properties of the IEEE 1394
architecture. And it isn't proprietary. I also think that IEEE 1394 is a
good (if not the best) choice WRT library support under Linux --- but I
don't have an overview about this field of applications.
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Stefan Richter
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