UVC Camera interfacing in version 3.2.0

[Dean Fortier]

Hi Modalai Team,

I am using a UVC camera and following the UVC streaming guide with VOXL version 3.2.0 and do not have ffmpeg installed by default and the link to download the ffmpeg ipk is broken. What is the recommended path forward for using a UVC camera? Should I use voxl-docker-ffmpeg, build voxl-ffmpeg, or something else?

Thanks

Also here is my current voxl-version:

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system-image:    ModalAI 3.2.0 BUILDER: ekatzfey BUILD_TIME: 2021-02-05_19:54
kernel:          #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 5 20:03:22 UTC 2021 3.18.71-perf
factory-bundle:  1.0.1 (Yocto installation)
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architecture:    aarch64
processor:       apq8096
os:              GNU/Linux
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voxl-suite:
Package: voxl-suite
Version: 0.3.4
Depends: voxl-utils (>= 0.6.0), libmodal_json (>= 0.3.4), libmodal_pipe (>= 1.7.8), librc_math (>= 1.1.4), libvoxl_io (>= 0.5.4), mavlink-camera-manager (>= 0.0.1), opencv (>= 4.5.1), openmp (>= 10.0.1), voxl-camera-server (>= 0.5.6), voxl-dfs-server (>= 0.0.7), voxl-docker-support (>= 1.1.1), voxl-gphoto2 (>= 0.0.5), voxl-hal3-tof-cam-ros (>= 0.0.5), voxl-imu-server (>= 0.7.8), voxl-modem (>= 0.11.0), voxl-mpa-tflite-server (>= 0.0.2), voxl-mpa-tools (>= 0.1.6), voxl-nodes (>= 0.1.3), voxl-qvio-server (>= 0.2.1), voxl-rtsp (>= 1.0.3), voxl-streamer (>= 0.2.1), voxl-vision-px4 (>= 0.8.1), voxl-vpn (>= 0.0.3)
Status: install user installed
Section: base
Architecture: all
Maintainer: james@modalai.com
MD5Sum: e1e5bf1a125affe5036099f6ce895bed
Size: 1818
Filename: voxl-suite_0.3.4.ipk
Description: meta-package for voxl-suite stable release
Installed-Time: 13238

Package: voxl-suite
Version: 0.2.0
Depends: docker, imu_app (= 0.0.6), libvoxl_io (= 0.5.2), voxl-cam-manager (= 0.2.2), voxl-docker-support (= 1.1.1), voxl-hal3-tof-cam-ros (= 0.0.2), voxl-modem (= 0.10.0), voxl-nodes (= 0.0.8), voxl-rtsp (= 1.0.2), voxl-utils (= 0.5.2), voxl-vision-px4 (= 0.6.8), voxl_imu (= 0.0.4), voxl-time-sync (= 0.0.1), voxl-vpn (= 0.0.2), librc_math (= 1.1.2), libmodal_pipe (= 1.2.2), modalai-vl (= 0.1.3)
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Section: base
Architecture: armv7a
Maintainer: james@modalai.com
MD5Sum: af706cd3c1ea59f274f2ed9b93141f1d
Size: 870
Filename: voxl-suite_0.2.0.ipk
Description: meta-package to install all of the voxl-suite

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[Arrowtec]

@Dean-Fortier personally I use the docker version and it works fine on my end

[Eric Katzfey]

voxl-streamer is the recommended approach. Documentation for that is here: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-streamer/

You can also run ffmpeg in a Docker to access a UVC camera.

[Dean Fortier]

Thank you both

[Eric Katzfey]

gstreamer in a Docker also works