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Welcome to the ov51x JPEG hacked linux driver wiki!
Some news
- April 02, 2008: Released 1.5.7 with another model of Live! webcam and some fixes for their leds.
- February 11, 2008: Released 1.5.6 supporting two new models of Live! webcams, and a workaround for various applications.
- January 26, 2008: Released 1.5.5 fixing compilation with 2.6.24 kernels.
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You can find/add informations here about this dirty-but-quite-working module.
ov51x-jpeg hacked was made because the original driver did not provide the jpeg decompression and current v4l implementation did not provide such facilities.
To be clear, JPEG decompression should be considered 'evil' inside the kernel, and the normal way is to handle it in userland, so the original author was right doing what he did.
On the other hand, I had an ov519 camera and I did not want to wait for an hypothetic support of JPEG under v4l, and found it more easy to implement within the driver, using the in place proprietary decompression modules for the previous ov511 and 518 cameras, than to implement into v4l so I did this.
I do not provide support of any kind, so don't blame on me if your grand mother falls on the stairs just right after having it installed.
