With various concepts, I was able to solder this on a prototype board and with the correct settings, managed to stream ~32Mbps (AP) via HTTP TCP, and can sustain that speed.
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Now, I'm making an open-sourced ESP32-C5-CAM hardware development board. Most of the ...

Does anyone know the correct way to calculate PCLK frequency and FPS from the OV5640 configuration parameters?

I am trying to verify whether the VCO, SYSCLK, and PCLK frequencies are within valid ranges when using a 24 MHz XCLK.

I am implementing a calculator:
https://romanlut.github.io/hx-esp32 ...

Thanks for providing the camera example.

Just as an additional note: there appears to be a bug in the SDK related to the sampling edge.

In the camera example, config->pclk_sample_edge is never initialized, so it effectively defaults to PARLIO_SAMPLE_EDGE_NEG (0). As a result, parlio_rx_soft ...

I actually was able to get the pin mapping and connected the relevant pins and tested the Simple Camera Capture
code and got successful image capture logs, though when I tried again after some time, I now am only getting capture failed due to timeout errors. Do you know what could be going wrong ...

Hey, we are looking to connect our ov5640 camera to esp32 c5 dev board. I dont have much hardware experience. If you could help me out on how you managed to connect them wopuld be of great help! Thanks

Hello, thanks for reaching out! Well, since the ESP32-C series, including ESP32-C5 have ...

I have successfully be able to interface DVP camera with ESP32-C5 (Or targets supporting Parallel IO peripheral) to achieve 5GHz connectivity without the need to use other SoCs.
This is useful for example, a cost-effective single-chip applications requiring Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. For my use case, it ...

I got similar issues as you, and had the same development board as well. But so far I tackled everything on the values based on the API reference docs, and no luck, it seems it is still queueing the frame buffer based on the queue items, and it doesn't receive the frame buffer in time, in my ...