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Commit 9b06f754 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs



The philips.txt file were at the wrong place: it should be,
instead, at Documentation/media.

Move and convert it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 8a6a285d
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	meye
	omap3isp
	omap4_camera
	philips
	pvrusb2
	pxa_camera
	radiotrack
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Philips webcams (pwc driver)
============================

This file contains some additional information for the Philips and OEM webcams.
E-mail: webcam@smcc.demon.nl                        Last updated: 2004-01-19
Site: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

As of this moment, the following cameras are supported:

 * Philips PCA645
 * Philips PCA646
 * Philips PCVC675
@@ -89,7 +93,8 @@ power_save
compression (only useful with the plugin)
   With this option you can control the compression factor that the camera
   uses to squeeze the image through the USB bus. You can set the
   parameter between 0 and 3:
   parameter between 0 and 3::

     0 = prefer uncompressed images; if the requested mode is not available
	 in an uncompressed format, the driver will silently switch to low
	 compression.
@@ -109,11 +114,11 @@ compression (only useful with the plugin)
leds
   This settings takes 2 integers, that define the on/off time for the LED
   (in milliseconds). One of the interesting things that you can do with
   this is let the LED blink while the camera is in use. This:
   this is let the LED blink while the camera is in use. This::

     leds=500,500

   will blink the LED once every second. But with:
   will blink the LED once every second. But with::

     leds=0,0

@@ -141,7 +146,7 @@ dev_hint
   A camera is specified by its type (the number from the camera model,
   like PCA645, PCVC750VC, etc) and optionally the serial number (visible
   in /proc/bus/usb/devices). A hint consists of a string with the following
   format:
   format::

      [type[.serialnumber]:]node

@@ -150,7 +155,7 @@ dev_hint
   would be rather pointless). The serialnumber is separated from the type
   by a '.'; the node number by a ':'.

   This somewhat cryptic syntax is best explained by a few examples:
   This somewhat cryptic syntax is best explained by a few examples::

     dev_hint=3,5              The first detected cam gets assigned
			       /dev/video3, the second /dev/video5. Any
@@ -170,6 +175,7 @@ dev_hint
				through /dev/video6.

   Some points worth knowing:

   - Serialnumbers are case sensitive and must be written full, including
     leading zeroes (it's treated as a string).
   - If a device node is already occupied, registration will fail and
@@ -189,8 +195,10 @@ trace
   If you want to trace something, look up the bit value(s) in the table
   below, add the values together and supply that to the trace variable.

   ====== ======= ================================================ =======
   Value  Value   Description					   Default
   (dec)  (hex)
   ====== ======= ================================================ =======
       1    0x1   Module initialization; this will log messages       On
		  while loading and unloading the module

@@ -208,6 +216,7 @@ trace
      64   0x40   Show viewport and image sizes                       Off

     128   0x80   PWCX debugging                                      Off
   ====== ======= ================================================ =======

   For example, to trace the open() & read() functions, sum 8 + 4 = 12,
   so you would supply trace=12 during insmod or modprobe. If
@@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ trace



Example:
Example::

     # modprobe pwc size=cif fps=15 power_save=1