Thread: [Debian] Deblet Hack Challenges v1.0
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2008-09-30 , 20:44
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#47
Originally Posted by qole View Post
Is there any hope of hacking a solution that lets the camera be used as a standard v4l device, without using gstreamer?

As you might suspect, I'm only interested in chroot, where the camera is supposedly available on /dev/video0, but most apps can't seem to access it. Why not?
I didn't install any gst-plugins from Nokia for this - the camera -is- a v4l device. Maybe need to be included in 'video' group or the likes?

Also, please note the dm-loop by free and Matan that allows a loop filesystem to be accessed at almost the same speed as a partition. This makes the deblet-in-a-file option very attractive. This definitely needs to be added to the deblet system.
Yeah, I've got it on my TODO and it's very interesting. I do need a statically or initfs linked dmsetup for this purpose however before it's possible (deblet-in-a-file uses "support" files on the vfat and abuses the fact vfat has +x permission for files when not mounted noexec..)
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