[UPDATED 04/29][DEV - Camera ( camcorder improvement ) ] Camera tests

Hi,

Here is a "test" package for camera under android.

IMPORTANT : this thread will only deal with XDANDROID Rom. Cyanogen's mod or any else might not work if camera have not been enabled in userland (checkered camera screen).

Current working devices are :
-Diamond
-Rhodium
-Raphael
-Blackstone
-Topaz

This package allow camera to be used for picture but video will fail (bug fixed, will soon publish libs).

I need some people to test it (I've tested it but when you are working on something for a long time, you sometimes need external testers...because you know where it may bug and you don't really want that so you avoid those use cases...)

1/ MAKE A BACKUP of the system.ext2, rootfs.img and data.img files so that you can revert back to normal state if something goes wrong
2/ See intructions in the 22/01/2011 update.
3/ If you have a CMDA rhodium, add the following content to the startup.txt file : This is a quick hack to detect CDMA board till I make it as the other board do.
4/ Replace the kernel + modules with the ones provided in the latest update.

Any feedback is welcome. If you're experiencing problems, please attach a dmesg log and logcat log so that I can analyze them. If I don"t have those files, I probably won't be able to do anything to help you.
THIS THREAD IS FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO USE ANDROID AND ADB. Others, wait for the final release in the common tree.

Source tree : http://gitorious.org/~jbruneaux/linux-on-qualcomm-s-msm/linux-msm-home-work (lot of changes almost every days as used as a gateway between computers)

[23/02/2011] :
* New kernel for rhodium only. This is an attempt to fix the pink screen problem.

Link to the package : http://www.4shared.com/file/OMMJkB4Q/kernel_modules_02232011.html

[29/04/2011] :
* New libraries for camcorder to enable the hardware codecs for video recording.
These libraries will make camcorder use the hardware accelerated codecs for qualcomm hardware. That will make quite good quality videos (much more than the software codec actually used) and will also make sound recording work with video.

Link to the libraries : http://www.4shared.com/file/fLEiesLy/libomx_xdandroid.html

Please also patch your froyo.user.conf with those two lines :


Note that these libraries are to be used with the official xdandroid FROYO build (FRX05 or later) and the official kernel/modules.

Don't use the kernels / libraries (except the 29/04/2011 camcorder libs) from this thread, they are now included in the offical release.



Once again : if you have a crash or a bad behaviour, please make a dmesg log + logcat log ! I can't work without these files. Thanks


PLEASE, READ CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING AND CHECK FOR ANSWERS IN THE POSTS !


IMPORTANT : If the camera does not work, first, try to find the solution by yourself in this thread, then send me dmesg log + logcat of the boot and camera start.

Thanks to bzo for its modified libGLES_qcom and its work on rhodium (working hard on camera). Thanks to everyone who helped me with testings and logs.

Hi,
before release, i wanted to make clocks working without rpc calls, that's why it took longer. Now, the code is "cleaner" and should work for any device (with small adjustments for amss and memories configuration).

Jerome

lorikitty said:

everything copies successfully except gralloc.msm7k.so. The folder is unwriteable through ssh. Any suggestions for getting it moved?
it says it's a read-only file system. do I need to be in a different mode other than through adb in order to mount the file as rw?

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The lib_inst.sh contains a line to enable read/write access to rootfs so that gralloc can be overwritten
Have your tied using this script ?

Testing on Fuze.

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Package was not designed to run on fuze but should not make your system crash or freeze...

i encounter this when playing around with angry .

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I don't know if it's related to my kernel. Can you send the full dmesg + logcat if you've got the problem again. Also, it might come from the modded libGLES_qcom.so. What device are you using ?



I'm currently modifying blackstone files. I will need someone to test it but he must be patient because it may fail a few times before it runs (memory layout is written in a more "tweakable" way, but it may need some adjustement.
Blackstone sensor is not the mt9t013 as in diamond but mt9p012. Anyway, liboemcamera.so seems to know this sensor and it should work. I'm also looking at the CDMA diamond to make it work with camera (mainly memory configuration to do).

Will try to put a package for theses devices before xmas.

xUmaRix said:

im on blacstone.maybe i could help.i saw you modified gralloc that have dynamic memory allocation from standard pmem to 3D pmem.im using qcom library for OpenGL ES 1.1-CM GL_RENDERER Q3Dimension MSM7230 01.02.08 0 4.0.0.Im testing 3D library to get better fps

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I've used libGLES_qcom from bzo, just some memory size stuff modded. For camera, right now, I don't care about fps, but I will care when camera will work for almost every devices. Winmo can use more than our 7 & 8 mb of gpu memories, so I think we can make linux to do the same.

-UPDATE-

Add support for Diamond CDMA, Raphael (all models) and blackstone. Need some (patient) testers.

See first post