SiPix SANE vidcam backend under development

SiPix SANE vidcam backend under development

Main Index, webcam,
#Info, links, documents, #Camera info, #Progress, #Download, #To Do list

Goal for this page is to collect data about the SiPix camera/webcam and to give
information about the SANE sipix Vidcam backend.

Info, links, documents

Manufacturer Camera/Webcam: SiPIx
                            Foxlink Image Technology(FIT) (FunPix Q)
                            NuCam
SiPix, Foxlinkimage (FIT) and NuCam belong to the FoxLink Group

Manufacturer 
USB bridge:    
Motion JPEG controller:     Macronix
jpeg header info            jpg header info
                            rfc2435, 2035=obsolete
			    SIPIX PICTURE EXAMPLES

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SiPix StyleCam Snap info vid 0x0c77, pid 0x1010

version: 06 00 00 02 0a 18 (type 6 version 2.10.24 ???)
Chips: 
USB bridge??
MOTION JPEG CONTROLLER: Macronix MX88LS10UC
Sensor:
Lens:
resolution: 640x480, 320x240, 160x120
Frame format .jpg with header information
Pictures:
SiPix front parts
SiPix back parts
sensor 

For some other info on SiPix camera's see Marcus Meissner camera's
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Progress

	
24-03-2005 .. 29-03-2005 .. working on bulk read frame data, problem error, 
                            read failed, resource temporarily unavailable.
			    frame length problem
23-03-2005 .. 24-03-2005 .. skeleton files sipix.c, sipix.h, sipix.conf (ready)
23-03-2005 .. 24-03-2005 .. sipix.txt
21-03-2005 .. 26-03-2005 .. status gphoto2 (sipix camlib blink2.c file, camera is detected, file is captured 
                            file format?, saving? or viewing?), status is experimental,
21-03-2005 Start of search to driver, some test done (lsusb -v, sane-find-scanner -v -v,
               gphoto2 (sipix camlib blink2.c file, no capture yet),
	       webcam funtion (no webcam linux driver yet).
	
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Download

25-03-2005 See Downloads page 
	
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TO DO list

1. More usb trafffic logs (with sniff-usb 1.8), format output (with skipe4.pl) and check usb traffic.
2. Generate/update sipix.txt file with more USB commands info.
3. Try to get frame data using bulk read mode
4. Conversion frame from .jpg fileformat to .ppm file format.

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