sphere
[Drivers]
This driver is a heavily modified version of the camerav4l one developed by Andrew Howard. The sphere driver captures images from a Logitech Sphere cameras. It differs from a normal Video4Linux device in that it has a built in Pan/Tilt/Zoom unit, so this driver supports multiple interfaces.
- Date:
- 1.2.2005
- Compile-time dependencies
- <linux/videodev.h>
- Provides
- Requires
- none
- Configuration requests
- none
- Configuration file options
- port (string)
- Default: "/dev/video0"
- Device to read video data from.
- size (integer tuple)
- Default: 320 x 240
- Desired image size. This may not be honoured if the driver does not support the requested size).
- mode (string)
- Default: "RGB888"
- Desired capture mode. Can be one of:
- GREY (8-bit monochrome)
- RGB24P (24-bit planar RGB)
- RGB888 (24-bit RGB)
- YUV420P (planar YUV data; not currently implemented)
- save (integer)
- Default: 0
- Debugging option: set this to write each frame as an image file on disk.
- framerate (integer)
- Default: 10
- The framerate (0..63Hz)
- shutter_speed (integer)
- Default: 64000
- The shutter speed (1..65535)
- compression_preference (integer)
- Default: 2
- Set compression preference (0..2)
- automatic_gain (integer)
- Default: 10000
- Set automatic gain control (0..65535)
- automatic_wb (string)
- Default: "auto"
- Set automatic wb mode (auto/manual/indoor/outdoor/fl)
- sharpness (integer)
- Default: -1
- The image sharpness (0...65535)
- backlight (integer)
- Default: 0
- Set backlight compensation (0=off, other=on)
- flicker (integer)
- Default: 0
- Set antiflicker mode (0=off, other=on)
- noise_reduction (integer)
- Default: 0
- Set noise reduction mode (0=none...3=high)
- dump_settings (integer)
- Default: 0
- Output settings to display when driver starts (0=off, other=on)
- debug (integer)
- Default: 0
- Display a copy of the image on localhost (0=off, other=on)
- Example
driver ( name "spheredriver" provides ["camera:0" "ptz:0"] port "/dev/video0" size [320 240] mode "RGB24" automatic_wb "fl" framerate 30 shutter_speed 64000 automatic_gain 10000 dump_settings 0 )
- Author:
- Brad Kratochvil