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It's not part of the Camera module, but you're right that there is a dedicated h/w core for it. Some lower end SoCs just do it in the DSP.

On most (if not all), the "firmware" is under the /system partition. That partition is mounted as read-only. You need root to remount it as r/w. AFAIK, rooting exploits in the past…

I think that's because nouns ending in a "ah" are considered feminine in the Russian language http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_gender.php

As a corollary question, does anyone use Tiling Window Managers on Windows? Is the one you use good? I've been using bug.n[1], but my experience has been subpar due to it's buggine…

It'd be really cool if one of these websites integrated with Amazon S3 (i.e. download it and store in one of my buckets). I don't need the storage, just the bandwidth.

It's a lot easier for things to "just work" when one company controls the entire stack. That being said, as others have pointed out, ChromeCast and Miracast solve different problem…