Getting Both Streams

[ghost]

For some reason I thought this driver could provide both color and depth streams. It looks like I was misinformed, but now I have two questions:

• If this driver is only providing the depth stream from the Kinect, what modifications were needed for gspca?
• What would have to happen to get the Kinect to show up as two cameras, so that both depth and color streams could be accessed?

[xxorde]

That's the problem!

What has to be done.

1. gspca must give the driver the possibility to choose any number of isoc endpoints
2. the driver must handle both endpoints

Number 2 should be quite easy when 1 is done. My code provides everything that is needed for depth and the kernel code provides everything needed for video.

Point 1 is a problem because gspca and the interface has to be changed.

As a starting point you can read my mail to the linux-media mailing list: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg75490.html

[piedar]

@xxorde If/when dual-stream support makes it into the mainline kernel, please open an issue at OpenKinect/libfreenect. I would love to eventually add backend support so everyone using libfreenect on Linux can benefit from these kernel drivers.

[xxorde]

@piedar I will let you know, many users won't notice but everyone with slower hardware could benefit from this.