[cpia] Vision File Format

[Scott.]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> > 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.

hmmmmmm. i'll check that out. i found the decode.zip off the CPia site,
but haven't had a chance to rummage through it yet.

> 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.

that sounds good. since Jeff got a copy of this email, i'll wait for his
response :)

> 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

yeah, that site is dead.

> 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.

i have the camera working completely under gPhoto (taking pictures,
transferring images, etc...) but i just need to convert the image format
to something know :P then the library gets committed to CVS and the barbie
cam is supported :)

> cc: to cpia list and to jeff

ditto.

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