Hello Andrey,
Thank you very much for your email!
I have tried many things and I am still not able to capture the stream
video from both of the cameras, and that is the reason why I kindly
ask you for any made interface that can directly connect to the camera
and capture the video because I was not able to do it with Mplayer and
even with VLC. I used wireshark to see if the video is streamed to the
correct IP and port and it seems to be so but I repeat, I am not able
to capture the video either locally or in other pc's.
Thank you very much in advance for your support!
Best regards,
Daniel
Lainaus support-list <support-list@support.elphel.com>:
Hello Daniel,
I'm sorry for the insufficient documentation on the camera. We are a
small company and do not have sufficient resources to support all
the development platforms. Additionally, our SDK is based on that of
Axis Communication - the company that developed the processor used
in the camera and the related software.
It is definitely possible to use camera with other OS such as MS
Windows, but there is no Windows SDK for development. THis is why we
provide "live" distribution of Kubuntu on a flash thumb drive that
you can run without installation (but it will be much slower than
normal installation, of course).
For many applications of the camera you do not need to compile/build
native C/C++ applications to run in the camera, you may use PHP - as
far as I know it is possible to develop PHP on Windows. Camera has
PHP extension library (documented on our wiki -
http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=PHP_in_Elphel_cameras) that
takes care of efficient low-level interaction with the
camera-specific functionality and you can put the PHP code in the
camera that will communicate with the code on your host (including
Windows-based ) PC.
What kind of functionality are you looking for - video streaming or
just individual images for processing? There is imgsrv
(http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Imgsrv) server dedicated for
efficient generation of the camera images, so generic application
may combine code that controls the camera using http requests (to
existing camera php scripts or your custom ones) and then gets the
images through imgsrv.
FPGA programming is possible, but it requires rather old version of
Xilinx ISE - we could not keep up with modifying the code for each
new software release from Xilinx. The new camera code I'm working on
now will be much easier to support/use as it will not depend on
Xilinx proprietary IDE - the environment I'm using now is Free
Software plugin for a standard Eclipse IDE, Xilinx tools are
automatically launched as command-line tools and you can
simultaneously use ISE and Vivado tools, including different
releases. Here you may find some screenshots of this IDE -
https://github.com/Elphel/vdt-docs/raw/master/VDT-UserManualAddendum.pdf ,
the software itself is also on GitHub -
https://github.com/Elphel/vdt-plugin
When programming FPGA on the 353 camera I would recommend start with
10359 board (http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=10359 ) that has
the same memory and FPGA as the 10353 board. When non-operational
bitstream is loaded into the FPGA on the main 10353 board, the
camera will just silently hang as the FPGA is on the system bus and
camera functionality heavily depends on it. 10359 is easier to use
as you may just reset it and load a different bitstream without
rebooting the system. And the code is much simpler and easier to
simulate and P&R.
Andrey
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