cameracompress
[Drivers]

The cameracompress driver accepts data from another camera device, compresses it, and makes the compressed data available on a new interface.

Compile-time dependencies

libjpeg

Provides

Compressed image data is provided via a camera device.

Requires

Image data to be compressed is read from a camera device.

Configuration requests

none

Configuration file options

save (int)
- Default: 0
- If non-zero, compressed images are saved to disk (with a .ppm extension?)

image_quality (float)
- Default: 0.8
- JPEG image quality (0.0 - 1.0)

Example

driver
(
  name "cameracompress"
  provides ["camera:1"]
  requires ["camera:0"]  # Compress data from device camera:0
)

Author:: Nate Koenig, Andrew Howard

Last updated 12 September 2005 21:38:45