Toggle camera mirror bit

Erik Blankinship erikb at mediamods.com
Tue Jan 16 17:47:26 EST 2007


Anyone know how to set the mirror bit in the gstreamer pipeline?

It looks like gstvideoorientation is involved, but not clear where to set
that...

gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ximagesink

Erik

On 12/18/06, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2006, at 21:36 , Chris Ball wrote:
>
> > [From commits-kernel at .]
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:17:22PM -0500, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >> Toggle camera mirror bit
> >>
> >> Here's a patch which turns off the "mirror" bit by default, which
> >> seems
> >> to be the right way to do things.  It can always be tweaked via
> >> the V4L2
> >> interface...
> >
> > The webcam included in Mac laptops runs in mirror mode, so we should
> > decide which mode we prefer.  Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Actually, the mirrored image is displayed locally, and the right one
> transmitted. I feels very awkward to not mirror the image locally -
> your brain is conditioned to move your body in the opposite direction.
>
> Now, for the camera demo I wouldn't care too much, it's fine either
> way. Maybe not mirroring is better because it gets people thinking,
> whereas mirroring feels just natural.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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