Seems to be a nice camera, but that depends on your kernel version. There is no support for SN9C291 OV9712 on kernel v3.4.39. And no support on odroid-3.8.30 on my U3 also. Don't know about armbian legacy kernel version, but i don't expect there will be support also.
On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 4:41:59 PM UTC-3, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Manuel Braga <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:53:36 -0800 (PST) Rosimildo DaSilva > > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > >> I did not mention, but I founf two issues withe blobs: > >> > >> a) Motion Detection causes segmentation fault, whenever enabled. > >> b) FFMPEG complains that timestamp ( PTS/DTS ) are missing on the > >> H264 stream generated by the encoder... I've tried many things ( code > >> is commented out ), but nothing worked. > > > > There is another issue, that i believe to be important. > > But for whatever reasons, it has to be constantly remembered about its > > existence. > > > > And that issue is: > > > > c) The proprietaries binary blobs don't have a clear license attached. > > > > And in the copyright law, any "things" with "no license" by default fell > > in the "all rights reserved". > > I gave up fighting with Allwinner's encoder long ago. It is far easier > to just plug in a USB based h.264 camera. You can easily buy ones from > Logitech for $50. > > If you want it at the hardware level, look at chips from Sonix. Here > is a board based on the SN9C291 for $8.50. The bare chips are about > $4. > > https://world.taobao.com/item/40004211822.htm?spm=a312a.7700714.0.0.zGiipg#detail > > > Note that this PCBA is the same price as most bare image sensors > mounted on a flex cable. Plus I find it much easier to wire things > with a simple USB cable instead of an FFC. > > The Sonix chips will appear as USB UVC devices when plugged into Linux > and they will need no special drivers. They also work on Windows. > > > > > > > -- > > Manuel Braga > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "linux-sunxi" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
