main/multimedia/video/gst-plugins-good/files/0004-v4l2object-Don-t-probe-UVC-devices-for-being-interla.patch

From fefa084bde0850447ca5ed84775c094fcf0b2351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:38:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] v4l2object: Don't probe UVC devices for being interlaced

UVC devices are never interlaced, and doing VIDIOC_TRY_FMT on them
causes expensive and slow USB IO, so don't probe them for interlaced.

This shaves 2 seconds of the startup time of cheese with a Logitech
Webcam Pro 9000.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---
 sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c b/sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c
index 6564b91..ce52547 100644
--- a/sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c
+++ b/sys/v4l2/gstv4l2object.c
@@ -1561,10 +1561,18 @@ gst_v4l2_object_probe_caps_for_format_and_size (GstV4l2Object * v4l2object,
   gint int_width = width;
   gint int_height = height;
 
-  /* interlaced detection using VIDIOC_TRY/S_FMT */
-  if (!gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size (v4l2object, pixelformat,
-          &int_width, &int_height, &interlaced))
-    return NULL;
+  if (!strcmp((char *)v4l2object->vcap.driver, "uvcvideo")) {
+    /*
+     * UVC devices are never interlaced, and doing VIDIOC_TRY_FMT on them
+     * causes expensive and slow USB IO, so don't probe them for interlaced
+     */
+     interlaced = FALSE;
+  } else {
+    /* Interlaced detection using VIDIOC_TRY/S_FMT */
+    if (!gst_v4l2_object_get_nearest_size (v4l2object, pixelformat,
+            &int_width, &int_height, &interlaced))
+      return NULL;
+  }
 
   memset (&ival, 0, sizeof (struct v4l2_frmivalenum));
   ival.index = 0;
-- 
1.7.10.2