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A QR code scanner desktop app for Linux
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Camera not working on Pinephone #42

Open AndyM48 opened 3 years ago

AndyM48 commented 3 years ago

I am running CoBang on a Pinephone with Arch Linux and Phosh. Starting CoBang from the command line (SSH) shows: $ cobang

(main.py:12121): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 08:43:05.970: gst_element_message_full_with_details: assertion GST_IS_ELEMENT (element) failed

(main.py:12121): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 08:43:05.971: gst_element_message_full_with_details: assertion GST_IS_ELEMENT (element) failed

There is no video and it seems that only one of the cameras has been identified

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According to the wiki

The PinePhone has two cameras, OmniVision OV5640 with 5MP (up to 2592 x 1944 pixels) as rear camera and GalaxyCore GC2145 with 2MP (up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) as front camera.

Both cameras work with Megapixel.

hongquan commented 3 years ago

Hi @fdservices

According to MegaPixel author https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels, this camera is not supported by higher-level library (GStreamer), he has to do low-level stuff to access this camera video stream. Doing like this requires to have a real device. I don't have a real device so I cannot do it. Hopefully the camera is supported by some higher-level libraries someday.

rafael2k commented 2 years ago

Libcamera does support the cameras and gstlibcamera gstreamer source does provide support for them.