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  • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

    @Eric-Katzfey Just to gather a little more data, I took the voxl-libuvc code and built it on Ubuntu18.04. Then I ran uvc_test with the MS-1080P-HD camera and it worked fine.

    To do this I cloned libuvc and voxl-libuvc, then prior to building libuvc, I copied all the source files (*.[ch]) from voxl-libuvc to libuvc. This allowed me to use voxl-libuvc source code, but still build on a native ubuntu host.

    Anyway, that eliminates voxl-libuvc from the suspect list. Since voxl-uvc-server's callback is fed the frame size, that kinda points to the driver as a possible suspect.

    Any thoughts?

    If interested, I can post the script I used to do that build.

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    @Ed-Sutter What is uvc_test?

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    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

      @Ed-Sutter What is uvc_test?

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      @Eric-Katzfey Its the output of building test.c which is part of the libuvc code. It just uses libuvc to grab frames and they are pushed to the console with OpenCV.

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      • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

        @Eric-Katzfey Its the output of building test.c which is part of the libuvc code. It just uses libuvc to grab frames and they are pushed to the console with OpenCV.

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        @Ed-Sutter It looks like it prints the length each frame. Do you see it show same frame length each time or does it ever change?

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        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

          @Ed-Sutter It looks like it prints the length each frame. Do you see it show same frame length each time or does it ever change?

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          @Eric-Katzfey Yes, it does print every frame, and it is consistently (i.e. always) 614400 in my case.

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          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

            @Ed-Sutter It looks like it prints the length each frame. Do you see it show same frame length each time or does it ever change?

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            @Eric-Katzfey I modified the voxl-libuvc/build.sh script so that it would build the uvc_test (from test.c) program I mentioned earlier. Refer to the README.md file in the original libuvc code)...

            cmake ../libuvc -DBUILD_TEST=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLE=ON

            The test.c code uses opencv to display to a monitor, so I also stubbed that code out so that the callback simply prints the received frame size.

            With those changes I was able to install the uvc_test program on my Voxl Flight Deck and I see the same inconsistent frame size. That eliminates any suspicion of a problem with voxl-uvc-server code; and since this works correctly on a standard x86 linux machine, this points to the driver. Are there any open issues with this that you are aware of?

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            • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

              @Eric-Katzfey I modified the voxl-libuvc/build.sh script so that it would build the uvc_test (from test.c) program I mentioned earlier. Refer to the README.md file in the original libuvc code)...

              cmake ../libuvc -DBUILD_TEST=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLE=ON

              The test.c code uses opencv to display to a monitor, so I also stubbed that code out so that the callback simply prints the received frame size.

              With those changes I was able to install the uvc_test program on my Voxl Flight Deck and I see the same inconsistent frame size. That eliminates any suspicion of a problem with voxl-uvc-server code; and since this works correctly on a standard x86 linux machine, this points to the driver. Are there any open issues with this that you are aware of?

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              @Ed-Sutter Thanks for the testing! No, I am not aware of any issues.

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              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                @Ed-Sutter Thanks for the testing! No, I am not aware of any issues.

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                @Eric-Katzfey Just an FYI... I have been experimenting with libuvc on my host machine and I do notice occasional incorrect incoming frame sizes. So my earlier assumption that this only occurs on VOXL is false.

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                • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

                  @Eric-Katzfey Just an FYI... I have been experimenting with libuvc on my host machine and I do notice occasional incorrect incoming frame sizes. So my earlier assumption that this only occurs on VOXL is false.

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                  @Ed-Sutter Okay, thanks! That's good to know. And really appreciate the investigation!

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                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                    @Ed-Sutter It's definitely better to be on the latest release. What specific issue are you having with USB camera streaming?

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                    @Eric-Katzfey so why i bought VOXL Flight Deck month ago with 3.3.0-0.5.0 version? it was difficult for your team to upgrade to new version before sending? wonderful service for 1000$. im 2 weeks trying to get video streaming to qgc. Result - 0.

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                      @Anton-Gereles If you have a specific question that we can help you with please open a new forum post and we'd be more that happy to help get you going.

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