Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Streaming video from Beagle - not from Mars

I can proudly claim to have a video feed from the Beagle unfortunately it is not the one on Mars. The beagleboard is running Angstrom-2.6.29 kernel and using the uvcvideo module in conjuntion with the el-cheapo ($4 cost + $4 shipping) USB webcam.

root@beagleboard:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1e4e:0100  <- Webcam
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


Then connected to the device using ethernet-over-usb (also supplies power).

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep cdc
cdc_acm                16544  0
cdc_subset              3100  0
cdc_ether               4924  0
usbnet                 17188  2 cdc_subset,cdc_ether

ssh-ed with X-enabled and streamed the display of mplayer from the beagle to my main screen.

mplayer -fps 30 -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 tv://

So here is a screencap of the webcam looking back at the Beagle.

2 comments:

Devrim Baris Acar said...

Hi,
where did you buy the webcam from?

Tisham Dhar said...

Ebay Australia