Hi All,
I am looking into using the Beagle Board as a dev system for a
portable digital camera system. Is there any distro that you would
recommend me to use?
Thanks,
Most desktop distributions don't have digital camera applications,
though they will likely have webcam applications. Personally, I'd
look to either Android or Maemo. Perhaps someone might pull the
relevant applications into Angstrom. Any Ubuntu folks out there think
it has a chance for a reasonable camera app?
Has anyone tried gPhoto? http://www.gphoto.org/
It is the first application that Google tells me about. I can see it
is in Angstrom and Ubuntu. I have my doubts that there will be driver
support for it in the current Linux kernel, but there is a chance.
BeagleBoard XM will include the camera connector, so that you don't
need to use a USB camera. You can use the LeopardBoard today.
>> Hi All,
>> I am looking into using the Beagle Board as a dev system for a
>> portable digital camera system. Is there any distro that you would
>> recommend me to use?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Most desktop distributions don't have digital camera applications,
> though they will likely have webcam applications. Personally, I'd
> look to either Android or Maemo. Perhaps someone might pull the
> relevant applications into Angstrom. Any Ubuntu folks out there think
> it has a chance for a reasonable camera app?Has anyone tried gPhoto? http://www.gphoto.org/
It is the first application that Google tells me about. I can see it
is in Angstrom and Ubuntu. I have my doubts that there will be driver
support for it in the current Linux kernel, but there is a chance.
I used gphoto to do the laser pointer location recogonition youtube video with
the Pico and a RevB board. The OTG driver at that point in time had some
issues with ISOC ep's and my image processing code. So instead of a video
stream with random corruptions, I processed a stream of stills from gphoto.
Most of the tie in for that setup was done with shell scripts. All of this is
distro agnostic.
I think someone on the IRC channel is also using gphoto for a project.
Most of gphoto2 is a userland USB driver so the kernel support needed is
minimal. Only real requirement is making sure the camera is supported by
gphoto2.