What a great time for the #pinephonepro camera system. Imx258 driver is getting a major upgrade and megi just dropped the most important commit related to it this morning. Fixed the suspend issue so now the rear camera works after you suspend!!!!

https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=orange-pi-6.9&id=ed7992f668a1e529719ee6847ca114f9b67efacb

#mobilelinux #linuxmobile

@Luigi311 I gave up ( gemini://duncan.bayne.id.au/gemlog/2022-10-10-back-to-android.gmi ) using my regular PinePhone as a daily driver largely because it wasn't capable of taking decent still photos and videos of my children. Is the Pro capable of this now? Would love to switch back to a Linux phone if feasible.

@duncan_bayne No this still wouldnt be good for you. Libcamera still needs to be tuned for ppp and its missing autofocus. Megapixels 2 still needs work to make sure its not crashing and work on the awb so its not green. As for video, i havent messed to much with video but those missing things would massively help video. I know in gnome snapshot with libcamera its possible to take video though its not good and megapixels just merged in a rough version of video recording for short videos only.

@duncan_bayne for what its worth librem5 folks just got a postprocessing setup for images that make the photos look damn good, but also slow to process. Theres also work on getting libcamera working for them but that also has the same issue of tuning and autofocus. Their megapixel fork images are damn good now if you look at what @dos specifically has been posting since they are doing the tuning for their megapixel based postprocessing (milipixels).

@Luigi311 @duncan_bayne In Megapixels 2 -- bayer mode, videos are limited in length. In YUV, they should be unlimited. Gnome Snapshot is likely wrong toy to play with, but gstreamer can be useful for experiments.

@pavel @duncan_bayne interesting is YUV based recording implemented already or is that still being worked on? I only saw the initial implementation that was based on what millipixels did with their recording setup where it just saves raw stills to /tmp to convert afterwards and takes up a ton of space.

@pavel looks like you already got YUV recording merged into megapixels 2 nice! Gonna need to test it and see how it is.

@Luigi311 Yep. It still uses the /tmp trick, but now it encodes and deletes files from /tmp during recording. You'll need to patch pinephone config to switch to YUV and preview will be black&white.

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