[cpia] Vision File Format

[Pete Zaitcev]

Scott, your timing seems to be a perfect match for mine as I finally
got around to poke my barbiecam. I meant to do it since Itai's era :)

> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Scott." <scottf@scs.unr.edu>

> I am currently adding Barbie/HotWheels/WWF camera support to gPhoto and
> would like to see if anyone knows the image file format? [...]

scicomms.doc mentions VVL330, for which there is no datasheet on
Vision website. It seems that we can reuse a datasheet for VV6300
which is probably exactly the same thing.

Jeff Laing <jeffl@spatialinfo.com> have sent me his code for Mac,
which is not GPL-ed, but he explicitly permitted me to examine it
for the purpose of redoing (I hope I understood him right).
I did not look at it yet, but supposedly it does the job.

Vision used to have posted some code fragments too under GPL,
on their website, but now I cannot find them.
The website seems to be convoluted somewhat.
Get them from http://corp.metabyte.com/zaitcev/~linux/bcam/decode.zip

Yesterday I finished my "evk lores" tool that talks to the camera
and was just going to look into the image format. Other thing that
needs work is a setup of the camera wrt. lighting conditions, etc.

Please keep me posted,
--Pete

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