ofxRPiCameraVideoGrabber

STATUS: DEPRECATED, See ofxOMXCamera for future development/releases

Master may be unstable, features untested. See Releases for tested versions

DESCRIPTION:

openFrameworks addon to control the Raspberry Pi Camera Module. This does _not_ provide still camera functionality.

REQUIREMENTS:

openFrameworks .9 or higher Setup Guide Developed with GPU memory set at 256, overclock to medium but 128/default should work as well Desktop Mode (X11 enabled) may work but untested

USAGE:

Clone into your openFrameworks/addons folder Either copy one of the examples into /myApps or add ofxRPiCameraVideoGrabber to the addons.make file in your project

LED Toggling requires gpio program provided via wiringPi $sudo apt-get install wiringpi

The addon works in a few different modes:

# TEXTURE MODE:

Allows the use of:

• Shaders
• Pixel access
• Overlays, etc

# NON-TEXTURE MODE (or direct-to screen)

In non-texture mode the camera is rendered directly to the screen. It typically looks a bit faster/cleaner but no other drawing operations can happen.

RECORDING: Recording is available in both texture and non-texture modes

EXAMPLES:

# example-demo-mode

Shows different settings available to tweak the camera exposure, metering, cropping, zooming, filters, mirroring, white balance

# example-direct-mode

Camera turns on and is rendered full screen via OMX acceleration Press the "e" key to toggle through built in filters

# example-direct-mode-transform

Demos cropping, alpha, mirroring of direct display (not camera)

# example-texture-mode

Camera turns on and renders to a texture that is drawn at full screen and a scaled version Press the "e" key to toggle through built in filters

# example-shaders

Basic shader usage with texture-mode Press the "e" key to toggle through built in filters Press the "s" key to toggle shader

# example-saved-settings:

Alternative way to load a camera configuration through a text file

# example-recording:

Recording of video in texture or direct mode

# example-wrapper:

Drop-in replacement for ofVideoGrabber (texture-mode only)

THANKS:

Thanks to @tjormola for sharing his demos and exploration - especially in regards to recording https://github.com/tjormola/rpi-openmax-demos

and thanks to @linuxstb for helping get started with the camera and OpenMax https://github.com/linuxstb/pidvbip