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Fix docs

Open eddiewebb opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Follow from #1774 , as the terse closer mentioned the docs explicitly say"

"Picamera2 does not use this type of memory,"

But it dont work without it. Thats a bug in docs wording. Full details in closed issue.

eddiewebb avatar Jan 18 '23 14:01 eddiewebb

Picamera2 does not use that memory. However, the video encoder does, which is presumably where the problem is, but that is not part of Picamera2.

JamesH65 avatar Jan 18 '23 14:01 JamesH65

You are conflating two different effects of reducing the gpu_mem value below the default of 32 (MB).

  1. The obvious effect is to reduce the amount of memory reserved for the GPU. When using libcamera/picamera2 the firmware makes little use of its memory carve-out.
  2. The other effect is to switch to the cut-down version of the firmware, which lacks the codec and ISP support.

In short, just do what the documentation says and remove all gpu_mem=... settings.

pelwell avatar Jan 18 '23 14:01 pelwell