[spook-l] Spook and ARM-Linux

[Nathan Lutchansky]

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Ioannis Skazikis wrote:

> First of all I want to report that spook runs fine under an ARM - Linux 

Actually, about half the development was done on embedded platforms, 
primary ARM7 and ARM9.  :-)

> Architecture platform running a kind of a debian - Familiar linux Distro 
> (2.4.17 Kernel) with a Philips USB webcam. 

The Philips USB webcam driver works on ARM?  That's good to know...

> With the Creative USB WebCam (Notebook) cammera (module name spca5xx.o) it is 
> complaning that spook can not set the framerate and stops running.

Did you try "Framerate auto"?

> With the Logitechs QuickCam USB (module name quickcam.o (from the 
> qc-usb-messanger src driver package)) it says that v4l error setting pallete 
> parameters (Yes, I saw the report on the last mailing list) and stops 
> running.

I think I have a fix for this, I'll see if I can find it.

> If the system (ARM-Linux PDA) runs to many applications, spook doesnt crass, 
> stills running with a continusly frame drop message output. But wenn I stop 
> everything else, that means all the cpu power can use spook, why stills 
> dropping the frames? Is a way to tell spook stop frame dropping, now you can 
> continue normally?

That's a known bug you run into if the system gets too heavily loaded.  I 
have some fixes in the pipeline to allieviate this but I haven't had time 
to test them much.

> Because I can not acces your cvs, can you put a cvs.tar.gz under your Spooks 
> homepage?

Here's how you can access CVS:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.litech.org:/work/cvsroot login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs.litech.org:2401/work/cvsroot
CVS password:    (just press enter)
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.litech.org:/work/cvsroot co spook

Also there is ViewCVS at http://cvs.litech.org

> Generally I found Spook a small, simple but usefull application.
> Nice work!!!

Thanks!

By the way, if you're planning on discussing this further, you might want 
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automatically.  -Nathan
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