[Gridflow-dev] [PD-dev] trouble installing PWC driver

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, sisil mehta wrote:

> u mentioned about using the uvc driver, but i actually ws using gridflow 
> in puredata which requires the pwc driver.(unless there is a way to 
> avoid that and use uvc . is there?)

Johannes Zmölnig just mentioned (on pd-dev) some way of doing it, which I 
have not tried yet. This is because UVC supports V4L2 but not V4L1, and 
GridFlow supports V4L1 but not V4L2, so you need an adaptor. I knew about 
an adaptor for the other way (V4L1 driver, V4L2 program) but not this way 
(V4L2 driver, V4L1 program).

GridFlow does not "require" the PWC driver. It supports some features that 
are only in the PWC driver, but that's optional. It supports V4L1 in 
general (I used it with Brooktree devices and QC-USB devices in the past).

I believe that a device is either requiring the PWC driver or the UVC 
driver, and you don't have a choice. for example, the QC Pro 4000 supports 
only PWC, and the QC Pro 5000 supports only UVC.

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