Category: Augmented Reality
Gstreamer and the Logitech Pro 9000
This is a gstreamer pipeline that takes frames from a UVC camera on /dev/video0 and displays them on the screen, while simultaneously saving one frame per second to a file. In other words, it’s a single-command-line surveillance camera.
gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! identity name=artoolkit ! tee name="logger" ! queue ! ximagesink sync=false logger. ! queue ! videorate ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=1/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace! pngenc snapshot=false ! multifilesink location="frame%05d.png"
Obviously, the camera can be set up to display in different resolutions, and save to differently named files. The next one expands the length of the section of the filename that changes to 8 digits, enough for one picture every second for 3.16 years. I also reorganized the order of the parameters so that ARToolkit can work with the data stream and do augmented reality stuff to it.
export ARTOOLKIT_CONFIG="v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! tee name=logger ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! identity name=artoolkit ! fakesink sync=false logger. ! queue ! videorate ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=1/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc snapshot=false ! multifilesink location=frame%08d.png"
Logitech Pro 9000 and Artoolkit
I’m doing a little augmented reality work for my day job, using ARToolKit. ARToolKit works, and is documented, which is a combination of features that appears to be unique in open-source augmented reality software.
I configured my build to use GStreamer, and set my ARTOOLKIT_CONFIG environment variable to v4l2src device=/dev/video0 use-fixed-fps=false ! ffmpegcolorspace ! capsfilter caps=video/x-raw-rgb,bpp=24,width=640,height=480 ! identity name=artoolkit ! fakesink
That gives a good tradeoff between resolution and speed, and works just fine with the simpleLite demo program that comes with ARToolKit.
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