On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Rajesh kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
> It will be a webcam or any HD cam having 5-12 MP lens. I need to program it > in a way i can use it for video streaming, taking still shots for a time > period etc., > > This can be done with: Hardware stack: Raspberry pi + HD webcam Software stack: ffmpeg for streaming + uvccapture for stills For basic uses, no programming is necessary - you can just cook up a shell script to stream videos or to capture and upload images. I have tried this with a Microsoft HD Cinema webcam. Interestingly Microsoft makes wonderful hardware :) Almost all their hardware. A warning though - the Raspberry pi will reach it's limit at 720p. If you are looking at full HD capture and streaming with h.264, the pi has not got the brute force to do a software encode. Actually it has got a hardware h.264 engine which you can unlock by buying a license @ ~$2. Unfortunately ffmpeg nor any other media app at the moment does not have a driver for this. Regards, Arun Venkataswamy http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/ "கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு" - ஔவையார் Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
