[etoys-dev] Camera in e-toys/scratch

[karl ramberg]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Derek O'Connell <doc at doconnel.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo, Bert,
>
> I took a quick look at Scratch on XO-1.5 (Build: 5 customised, Sugar:
> 0.93.4, Fw: Q3B19) and saw the effect mentioned in ticket/11297. At first
> guess this looks like a conversion problem in libv4l2 (new version?),
> confirmed by copying my desktop versions of libv4l2.so.0 and
> libv4lconvert.so.0 to the XO and then the camera image was perfect (although
> frame-rate was a little on the slow side). So this problem possibly needs
> bouncing elsewhere.
>
> Re supporting etoys/other-platforms, the c-code [1], image code [2] and
> example morph [3] was released ~20 months ago so I have no idea why it was
> not adopted. I do know it worked in etoys earlier this year since I loaded
> it all up to do a 3D side-by-side demo using two webcams.

I think we can add it.

Karl
>
> [1]
> http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/unix/plugins/CameraPlugin/?rev=2498
> [2] http://www.squeaksource.com/CameraPlugin.html
> [3] http://www.squeaksource.com/WebCamMorph.html
>
> Btw, I don't know what the "scratch-activity" script is trying to do by
> attempting to copy /usr/bin/squeak to the activities "bin" dir but it fails.
>
> -D
>
> On 06/10/11 09:53, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>  On 05.10.2011, at 22:15, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>> > After checking the plugins in Scratch, I have tried to use the
>> > camera in e-toys and.. is not working :( There are a old bug about
>> > this http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9813 but never was resolved. Is
>> > possible use the scratch plugin in e-toys? Or use part of the
>> > code?
>>
>>  Certainly. It would have the additional benefit of working on other
>>  platforms than Linux, so we'd love to have that.
>>
>>  I think it was even on someone's to-do list. However, I don't think
>>  anyone's working on it right now.
>>
>> > The scratch camera plugin is working very well in xo-1.75 and no
>> > so good in xo-1.5 (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11297)
>> >
>> > Gonzalo
>>
>>  - Bert -
>>
>>
>
>
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