[cpia] More STV0680

[Adam Harrison]

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Hello Again,

This list doesn't seem to have much life to it, I'm afraid I got impatient and
sent a polite email [attached] to Henry Bruce asking for the STV0680 specs :-)

You can see a picture of the camera at
http://www.scan.co.uk/images/cam-estudio.jpg

I've subsequently noticed that it comes with TWAIN/VfW drivers, the later of
which I now realise means 'Video for Windows'. The camera works beautifully
with netmeeting, without any of the performance problems alluded to in my last
post.

Cheers,

Adam.

-- 
Adam Harrison - Senior Analyst - Secure Systems Group, AGSL.
Work: (+44) 01753 804113 | Home: (+44) 01491 875027
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Dear Mr Bruce,

I hope you do not mind my taking the liberty of mailing you directly. I found
your address in the 'Thanks' section of
linux/Documentation/video4linux/README.cpia in the linux source tree.

I have recently acquired a digital camera which uses the Vision STV0680
co-processor, coupled with a CIF resolution sensor and 16Mbit of memory. I am
very keen to write a linux USB device driver to support this chip, and I
understand that you have been extremely helpful in the past in providing
documentation to the linux community (webcam.sourceforge.net has an archive of
datasheets and sample sourcecode for what appears to be an earlier chipset,
the CPiA).

I was wondering if it would be possible to obtain the same level of
documentation for the STV0680 ? My ultimate goal is to write a driver which
supports both streaming capture via the video4linux API as well as access to
thumbnails and stored images for user space applications such as gPhoto, to be
released under the GPL.

Yours Sincerely,

Adam Harrison.

-- 
Adam Harrison - Senior Analyst - Secure Systems Group, AGSL.
Work: (+44) 01753 804113 | Home: (+44) 01491 875027

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