Re: UVC / V4L2 webcam / grab

2009/8/23 not disclosed <[email protected]>:
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> I need to grab single frames from a UVC / V4L2 webcam with low latency and I need the frame
> to be acquired ASAP _after_ another event has occurred.  The code I am using is ~ that below
> and the problem I have is that unless I grab one frame and discard it I find the frame I grab (the
> image) sometimes contains things that could only occur _prior_ to the capture code being called.
>
> In pseudo code my problem looks like this:
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> set_condition(1);
> usleep(DELAY);
> ...
> set_condition(2);
> usleep(DELAY);
> grabframe(data);
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> The problem is the data may contain output from condition (1) even if DELAY is long enough
> to guarantee the image should only contain and image from condition (2). If I do something like:
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> set_condition(1);
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> usleep(DELAY);
>
> ...
>
> set_condition(2);
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> usleep(DELAY);
>
> grabframe(data);
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> grabframe(data);
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> the second grab returns the correct image regardless of what DELAY I use.
>
> This may be a stupid problem and I am not too familiar with how V4L2 works but here goes:
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> What is the easiest way to use V4L2 to grab an individual frame from a UVC webcam and
> ensure that the data in the frame relates to an image that occurred _after_ the grab was
> requested? second part is, what is the fastest / simplest way to do this?
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> I don't even know if it is possible to ensure this because I suppose hardware limitations
> may prevent a deterministic result.
>
> Sorry for cryptic explanation, the detailed one would take a huge space to explain.
> Simplest terms I am changing the lighting conditions then capturing the result, say this was
> from red->blue lighting, some of my grabbed images contain red when it would be impossible
> to do so unless the data I received was captured before I requested it.
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> Cheers,
>
> SA
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> // code snippet
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> // set up...
> int type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE;
> ret = ioctl (vd->fd, VIDIOC_STREAMON, &type);
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> // code to run at capture
> memset (&vd->buf, 0, sizeof (struct v4l2_buffer));
> vd->buf.type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE;
> vd->buf.memory = V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP;
> ret = ioctl (vd->fd, VIDIOC_DQBUF, &vd->buf);
> memcpy (vd->framebuffer, vd->mem[vd->buf.index],(size_t) vd->framesizeIn);
> ret = ioctl (vd->fd, VIDIOC_QBUF, &vd->buf);
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Hi SA.

Recently I had to do a "very basic" program to show in a Web a image
grabbed from the webcam.

I started using "uvccapture" like this:

uvccapture -v -d/dev/video0 -t0 -q100

But I got an error:

jgdu-laptop:~# uvccapture -v -d/dev/video0 -t0 -q100
Using videodevice: /dev/video0
Saving images to: snap.jpg
Image size: 320x240
Taking snapshot every 0 seconds
Taking images using mmap
Error opening device /dev/video0: unable to query device.
 Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal

I suppose the webcam was not supported.

So I found "vgrabbj" and the core functional prototype is:

vgrabbj > imagen-`date +%d%m%Y-%k%M%S`.jpg

This command grabs the image and name it with DDMMYY-mmss format.

I hope this helps.

José Gregorio.

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