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. 
>
>
>
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