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Some news
- June 7, 2010, ov51x-jpeg (hack) 1.5.9 don't work on via chip-set (in direct plug-in USB device id 041e:4064 Live! cam vista IM vf0460), the ov51x-jpeg
- detect !? HUB connection ?!? ov51x: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -5
- August 17, 2009: Patches for kernel 2.6.30 here.
- May 28, 2009: Support interrupted. See explanation here.
- September 28, 2008: Released 1.5.9, fixes compilation on 2.6.27 kernels
- June 23, 2008: Released 1.5.8, fixes compilation on 2.6.26 kernels
- April 02, 2008: Released 1.5.7 with another model of Live! webcam and some fixes for their leds.
Presentation
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.
