[libcamera-devel] [SimpleCam PATCH 1/2] simple-cam: processRequest: Report timestamp and enhance description

[Kieran Bingham]

Report the timestamp of the completed buffers when the processRequest()
call handles a request and improve the description to discuss more of
the operations that can be done here.

Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
---
 simple-cam.cpp | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/simple-cam.cpp b/simple-cam.cpp
index 71a715a0c27d..e282463c3976 100644
--- a/simple-cam.cpp
+++ b/simple-cam.cpp
@@ -46,8 +46,17 @@ static void requestComplete(Request *request)
 
 static void processRequest(Request *request)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Each buffer has its own FrameMetadata to describe its state, or the
+	 * usage of each buffer. While in our simple capture we only provide one
+	 * buffer per request, a request can have a buffer for each stream that
+	 * is established when configuring the camera.
+	 *
+	 * This allows a viewfinder and a still image to be processed at the
+	 * same time, or to allow obtaining the RAW capture buffer from the
+	 * sensor along with the image as processed by the ISP.
+	 */
 	const Request::BufferMap &buffers = request->buffers();
-
 	for (auto bufferPair : buffers) {
 		// (Unused) Stream *stream = bufferPair.first;
 		FrameBuffer *buffer = bufferPair.second;
@@ -55,6 +64,7 @@ static void processRequest(Request *request)
 
 		/* Print some information about the buffer which has completed. */
 		std::cout << " seq: " << std::setw(6) << std::setfill('0') << metadata.sequence
+			  << " timestamp: " << metadata.timestamp
 			  << " bytesused: ";
 
 		unsigned int nplane = 0;
-- 
2.32.0