Webcam support in Squeak (for VOLPC)

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Wed Mar 7 16:28:23 EST 2007


The video hardware certainly does YUV->RGB conversion with scaling in
real time.

Dunno about SDL....
                          - Jim


On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:32 +0100, salsaman wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >
> >We run a 1200x900 framebuffer.  You also need EXA acceleration memory
> >and more memory for RandR rotation.  Moving to 24-bit would mean the
> >loss of an additional 6MB of system memory on top of the existing 4 or 6
> >we already lose to framebuffer.
> >  
> >
> Please tell me you at least support YUV hardware scaling using SDL ?
> 
> Otherwise the framerates from LiVES in fullscreen mode will be abyssmal 
> - trying to get GDK to resize an image to 1200x900 and then converting 
> from 888 to 565 on a slow CPU will probaly result in about 1 fps (or 
> less...)
> 
> Regards,
> Gabriel.
> http://lives.sourceforge.net
> 
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