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  • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

    quick comment for anyone reading this, it is

    voxl-uvc-server -d when running

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    @wilkinsaf Thanks! I fixed the typo in the original post.

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      @Eric-Katzfey

      I am seeing that this failed for MJPEG

      voxl:~$ voxl-uvc-server -d
      Enabling debug messages
      voxl-uvc-server starting
      UVC initialized
      Device found
      Device opened
      uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed for MJPEG
      uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed

      Is there a config file for this that I can modify to change the format?

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      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

        @Eric-Katzfey

        I am seeing that this failed for MJPEG

        voxl:~$ voxl-uvc-server -d
        Enabling debug messages
        voxl-uvc-server starting
        UVC initialized
        Device found
        Device opened
        uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed for MJPEG
        uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed

        Is there a config file for this that I can modify to change the format?

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        @wilkinsaf That shows a failure of the camera to support either MJPEG or YUV422. In order to support that camera you need to know what formats it supports. The best way to do that is to query it's capabilities on the command line. First of all use the lsusb command to find out the device id and product id of the camera. For example:

        Ubuntu18$ lsusb
        Bus 001 Device 090: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
        Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
        

        This shows you that the UVC webcam has device id and product id 046d:0825. You can use that to query it's capabilities with lsusb -v -d 046d:0825. This will dump all of the camera capabilities to the output. Can you respond with the output from your camera?

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        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

          @wilkinsaf That shows a failure of the camera to support either MJPEG or YUV422. In order to support that camera you need to know what formats it supports. The best way to do that is to query it's capabilities on the command line. First of all use the lsusb command to find out the device id and product id of the camera. For example:

          Ubuntu18$ lsusb
          Bus 001 Device 090: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
          Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
          

          This shows you that the UVC webcam has device id and product id 046d:0825. You can use that to query it's capabilities with lsusb -v -d 046d:0825. This will dump all of the camera capabilities to the output. Can you respond with the output from your camera?

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          @Eric-Katzfey

          Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
          I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

          Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
          Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

          They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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            Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
            I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

            6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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            • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

              Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
              I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

              6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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              @wilkinsaf Project is here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

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              • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                @Eric-Katzfey

                Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                Eric Katzfey
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                @wilkinsaf The current voxl-uvc-server capabilities only cover uncompressed frames, not mjpeg. The two cameras that you are looking at both have uncompressed formats but the guidFormat is slightly different than the cameras I have tested with. Let me look into this a little deeper.

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                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                  @Eric-Katzfey

                  Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                  I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                  Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                  Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                  They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                  Eric Katzfey
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                  @wilkinsaf The formats should be compatible. I'll have to dig into the libuvc code to see why they are not accepted.

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                  • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                    Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
                    I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

                    6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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                    @wilkinsaf Are either of these cameras cheap and easy to purchase?

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                      I believe so. Let me find them online really quick. I was able to get the video's from the cameras streaming using the directions here: https://docs.modalai.com/uvc-streaming/

                      I moved over the ffmpeg ipk and executed
                      ffmpeg -i /dev/video2 -f mpegts udp://QCS_IP:4242

                      So I know that they are working.

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                      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                        @Eric-Katzfey

                        Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                        I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                        Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                        Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                        They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                        @wilkinsaf There are some clues here: https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/issues/42. It seems like there are some endian issues with interpretation of the guidFormat field. For example, for my Logitech C270 test camera, lsusb reports the guidFormat as 32595559-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 but libuvc (which voxl-uvc-server uses) reports the guidFormat as 59555932-0000-1000-8000-00aa00389b71. So, my guess is that since lsusb reports the guidFormat of your camera as 59555932-0000-1000-8000-00aa00389b71, libuvc (and hence voxl-uvc-server) will see it as 32595559-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 which doesn't match any valid formats. I think I can hack libuvc to add the extra guidFormat and then your cameras will work but I won't be able to test it without one of your cameras. But I will post it and you can try it. For reference this is where libuvc needs to be modified to add the extra guidFormat: https://github.com/libuvc/libuvc/blob/37f00abd32b083a3d748f2a25c1c794578b51c16/src/stream.c#L109

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                        • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                          @Eric-Katzfey

                          Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                          I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                          Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                          Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                          They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                          @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                            @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                            @Eric-Katzfey roger that. thank you for your support here Eric

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                            • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                              @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                              wrote on last edited by
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                              @Eric-Katzfey will post results after run

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                              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                @wilkinsaf Project is here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

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                                @Eric-Katzfey Sorry for being such a pain, but it seems like this repo keeps moving.

                                I went to https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

                                but got this

                                533db1c7-724e-4732-bf4a-7659d9acf39d-image.png

                                I keep searching around for the repo, but can not find it

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                                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                  @Eric-Katzfey Sorry for being such a pain, but it seems like this repo keeps moving.

                                  I went to https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

                                  but got this

                                  533db1c7-724e-4732-bf4a-7659d9acf39d-image.png

                                  I keep searching around for the repo, but can not find it

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                                  @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                    @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                    ModalAI Team
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                                    @Eric-Katzfey Got it, thank you!

                                    Will download and play with

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                                    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                      @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                      @Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

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                                      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                        @Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

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                                        @wilkinsaf Yes, it will remain public. Did you get a chance to see if the changes worked?

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                                        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                          @wilkinsaf Yes, it will remain public. Did you get a chance to see if the changes worked?

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                                          @Eric-Katzfey Testing out today

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