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Re: N900 Video Recording with LEDs

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Originally Posted by raulito (Post 514655)

Thanks for all the help. I installed ver 3 and it had conflicts.
Uninstalled ver 3 and installed ver 2 and still doesn't work with camera. :(

Same for me, very strange :confused:

Re: N900 Video Recording with LEDs

Quote:

Originally Posted by cb22 (Post 501105)

If you have v4l2-ctl:

Code:

./v4l2-ctl -c torch_intensity=1

will do the trick.

Hi, this application seems to have appeared from nowhere with no source or license attributation and managed to be used in multiple applications.

Can you tell me where you got it from and whether its source and license are available.
as it stands, I feel this binary should not be included inside free software.

(lfocus is one of the other python apps which wraps this binary)

Re: N900 Video Recording with LEDs

ok, I answered my own question with some digging :)

v4l2-ctl is a test app included within the GPL2 licensed package:

http://packages.debian.org/experimental/utils/v4l-utils

adding the main debian package lines to my scratchbox

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

I can get the source for the individual binary to build happily
tested by copying onto my machine

however, the debian packaging around the whole suite of tools requires debhelper 7 and potentially some other things.

So, source found and valid, but giving out a random binary is the wrong way, perhaps it should be extracted and a simpler maemo happy package created (unless someone wants to expand on what I started and bring the whole lot in)

Much happier now I know its got proper official OSS roots :)