[Paparazzi-devel] Re: Video Capture Devices

[Stephen L Hulme]

Hi Kurtis

 

The EasyCap DC60+ unit is certainly plug and play for Unbuntu 10.04 upwards. I believe it requires the installtion of the included drivers for other OS's.

 

Spook is not a requirement to display video in the GCS.

 

I believe Martin et al employed it to deliver video from a remote paparazzi GCS across the internet.at a conference.

 

I used it a while back but, I believe it won't compile/build with current Unbuntu releases.- also Vodafone data card charges were prohibitive in New Zealand. 

 

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

Stephen 

 

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:52:11 -0500 Kurtis Kraemer wrote:

 

Gareth and Stephen,

 

Thank you for the advice on the video capture devices. I already have a video receiver, so I don't think I'll need the Pollin unit.

I'll look into the Pinnacle or EasyCap.

 

Are these devices mostly plug-and-play, or is there some configuration required?

Accodring to the wiki, I should use Spook to receive and compress the video data. Any updates or changes to this procedure?

Steve, thanks for the IMU code.

 

- Kurtis

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:22:13 -0000
From: "Gareth Roberts" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Video Capture Devices
To: address@hidden
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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Pinnacle DVC-100 here, you can still get them and their bretherin on
amazon.
Hauppage usually work well also.

--G

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:02:33 -0000, Stephen L Hulme <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Kurtis
>
> The Pollin USB-R1 requires no additional software drivers, as decribed
> in the very much outdated wiki page, since the release of Ubuntu 10.04
> (Lucid Lynx).
> I works out of the box now.
>
> The Easycap DC60+ (with empia chip) works well and is a lot cheaper but,
> not as compact as the Pollin unit.
>
> Regards
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:47:41 -0500, Kurtis Kraemer wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to try to implement the live video feed feature as part of
> the GCS screen, and would like to know what video capture devices are
> currently being used succesfully.
>
> The wiki recommends the AVerMedia DVD EZMaker USB Gold:
> http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/product/productdetail.aspx?id=188&tab=APDriver
> (via http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Video)
>
> I suspect this hasn't been updated in a while, so I was wondering if
> there are any other frame grabbers or video capture devices that are
> recommended.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kurtis
> Ottawa, Canada