Questions tagged [raspivid]
the command line tool for capturing video with the Pi's camera module.
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Has the maximum video width for raspivid been increased beyond the original 2048?
I'm using the 12 MP image sensor and the latest version of raspbian on a Pi Zero 2 W. I'd like to use raspivid to create a (width = 2 x 1920) x (height = 1/2 x 1080) h264 video. I've seen statements ...
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Streaming video+audio from Pi4 to Pi4 via ethernet
I would like to stream video & audio from one Pi4 (equipped with mic/cam) to another Pi4 (equipped with screen/speaker) via ethernet (cable connected directly between them).
I've looked around, ...
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Cannot enable camera
I've been trying to enable the raspberry pi camera on my new pi 3B with no success.
I've tried updating.
I tried raspi-config on the commandline, enabled the camera and rebooted.
These did not work.
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Raspivid stdout hangs after random interval in Node and Python
Around 2 years ago, I made a simple server in Node.JS, running on a RPi Zero W, that started a raspivid process and captured MJPEG frames from the output. These were send to a website using a ...
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Is RPI B+ capable of ffmpeg raspivid and aac audio at speed 1x?
since a longtime I do livestream to youtube or twitch with 'copy' codec of raspivid (1280x720@25) and sound from /dev/zero
Now I try to add an audio track from chinese usb mic.
If I use copy audio ...
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Raspivid Overlay
I have been struggling for the past week to come up with a method to overlay text on a Raspivid preview. I have my raspberry pi connected via HDMI and simply want to overlay sensor data (in the form ...
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How to improve "motion" framerate, or feed "raspivid" h264 stream into "motion"?
I'm running Pi 4 with a 5 megapixel OV5647 camera attached to its camera port. I'm using motion to run motion detection, with the goal of running low-res stream at 2 frames per second for detection ...
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Check if Raspivid service is running?
I am creating a program the requires the following:
Check if raspivid is currently running.
Check if its running out of a services file.
if it is running out of a specific file, determine which ...
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Raspivid multicast UDP streaming
I need to stream raspivid video via UDP instead TCP in a multicast fashion.
Using:
raspivid -w 640 -h 480 -vf -ih -fps 30 -n -o udp://dest_address:12345
I can stream the video trough UDP on ...
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popen() vs netcat
I'm writing a RPi based surveillance solution that, among other things, starts video feeds on demand.
In my very first attempt I wrote a pretty simple TCP server that listen for a connection collect ...
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Raspbery camera, video stream at 3280x2464
According to this page Raspberry camera v2 can produce video stream with resolution of 3280x2464. However, all my tries with raspivid and gstreamer/v4l2 fails.
Knows someone how to reach this video ...
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Raspistill option "--stats"
Is this option still available? I have been attempting to use it but I don't see any information on the preview or the final image.
Command used:
sudo raspistill -st -ISO 150 -ss 1500000 -e png -o ...
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Video Distortion using PiCamera 2.0, but raspistill is fine
I'm new to using the Picamera, but I cannot play a video without distortion. The top of the image and any activity is redish/pink in color. I can take a picture with no problem. I'm using VLC to view, ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 Camera video not working but image are
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-picamera/4
The error is persistent using the CLI
raspivid -o Desktop/video.h264
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camera.start_preview()
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Bad video recording quality
I am trying to record a video using raspivid but when I am playing
the video has bad quality and shorter than it should be
raspivid -t 30000 -o vid.h264
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Unable to stream live on Youtube using Raspberry Pi Zero W using ffmpeg
I am trying to stream live on Youtube using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a raspicam. I have installed ffmpeg using the instructions in this link. I am trying to start the streaming on Youtube using the ...
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RGB888 as input to Raspberry Pi
I need to give RGB888 data coming from one of my hardware into a Raspberry Pi and should be able to see the video feed via a script just like raspivid. Methods to interface Pi to DPI is available. I ...
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Is it possible to change video resolution while recording?
Is there possible to change video resolution from 640x480 to 1640x 1232 while is recording and vice versa?
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how does raspistill/raspivid display video without GUI?
I'm trying to capture video from raspberry pi camera using OpenCV and display it without using gtk or x11. I noticed that raspivid displays camera output without using any window, I wonder if it's ...
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Show/hide preview of Raspivid on runtime
Is there any possibility to hide/show preview of video on runtime?
I know there is only signal event handler to pause recording but I don't see possibility to control behaviour of Raspivid via DBus or ...
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Audio/Video drift when streaming to Twitch using FFMpeg
I'm trying to build a Twitch streaming box to stream from an input device.
Link to the project is:
https://github.com/jimbobbennett/RaspberryPiTwitchStreamer
My setup is:
Raspberry Pi Model 3B+
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Take 5 images a second, triggered by motion sensor, switching between 2 cameras depending on time
I'm working on a project similar to a security camera with a Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera Module v2 and a FLIR Lepton 3.5 on a purethermal 2.
I am somewhat new to this and am not sure how to proceed. ...
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Raspivid: 'ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late' & stream keeps freezing
First post here, hopefully i'm in the right place :)
I'm attempting to stream low-latency video from my Raspberry Pi to my Windows PC using Raspivid and VLC. I'm no expert on this stuff and i'm ...
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FFMPEG Raspivid Videos are shorter than they are supposed to be
I am recording and piping my video with the following command :
raspivid -w 1920 -h 1080 -fps 25 -b 7000000 -o - -t 0 | ffmpeg -re -f h264 -framerate 25 -i - -vcodec copy -y -r 25 -strict ...
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Fast pictures with PiCam and Java
I was already searching through forums and this stack exchange but I couldn't find anything that helps.
So here is my problem.
I have written a program in Java that analyzes pictures and outputs ...
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raspivid doesn't include b-frames
I'm streaming raw h264 using raspivid on Raspberry Pi 3 and PiCam v1 . However, even I set the h264 profile to main or high, stream only contains I and P frames. Here is the command that I use for ...
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What will happen with 2 AV signals
Should be a quick one.
I know you can mix AV channels to overlay images but if I connect 2 raspberry pi to one screen in AV and no multiplexer how will the channels mix if they are at different ...
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YouTube Stream and Display Date and Time on the stream
I'm streaming to YouTube with a Raspberry Pi. I would like to to display the date and time in the video. Is this possible?
I'm using the terminal command:
raspivid -o - -n -t 0 -vf -hf -br 50 -fps ...
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Recent raspivid segmented filenaming does nog work properly
I updated to pi3B+ and got the most recent raspivid.
In my old software I use
raspivid -sg 6000 -wr 40 -sn 4 -o REC_%04d.h264"
to produce a file named REC_0004.h264.
The new version produces a ...
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How do I get rid of these weird video artifacts when using raspivid?
I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ powered via NavoLabs POE Hat with an Arducam for capturing video. I'm using the following command to capture the video:
raspivid -t 0 -w 1280 -h 720 -o -
The video has ...
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Developing custom effects for raspivid?
Has anyone created a custom effect for raspivid's -ifx option? From a quick look at the Github repo, it seems there is it might be run through the MMAL interface but I have no idea where to get ...
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How to stream low latency camera feed to RTMP server
Are there any optimizations or recommended techniques for streaming a camera feed from a raspberry pi to an RTMP server. Currently I get a 1-2 second lag when I run:
raspivid -n -t 0 -w 1280 -h 720 -...
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How to wrap a H264 stream to a MP4 container
I have successfully streamed an h264 video over the local network with this command.
raspivid -o - -t 0 -n -w 1280 -h 720 -vf -vs -fps 30 -b 3500000 | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{...
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Can't get OMXPlayer to display video
I am watching a tutorial on YouTube and literally following everything that he is doing....
I have recorded a video and now trying to play it using the omxplayer
When i go to play my video using the ...
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Using Raspivid with a SSH tunnel
I can successfully stream using
raspivid -o - -t 0 -w 640 -h 480 -fps 30 |cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:8160}' :demux=h264
and I can view the stream in ...
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Why does raspividyuv need sudo?
I'm running Arch Linux ARM on my RPi 1B. I'm trying to pipe raspividyuv's output to a program that I've written and it seems that I can't run raspividyuv without root privileges.
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ffmpeg performance degrades over time
I am using a Pi Zero W with the Pi camera (noir) to stream live to Youtube using ffmpeg.
The command line I am using is:
raspivid -o - -t 0 -h 720 -w 1296 -fps 24 -b 6000000 | ./ffmpeg -ar 44100 -ac ...
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Pi zero with Pi can video steaming stability issues
I wanted to setup my pi zero and pi camera as a rstp streaming cctv camera.
I tried motion, but this ran the pi at 100% cpu utilisation and I didn't need motion capture as a I have a seperate (motion) ...
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raspivid with awb off gives black image
I want to turn off auto white balance for my raspivid stream. However, when doing that, the image turns completely black. Why? And how do I fix this?
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Raspberry PI 3 + L298N Rapid changing action hangs up the Pi
I do some research in Robotic using several machine learning algorithm.
I am using Raspi 3 with native camera module. I stack the Raspi with L298N Motor Driver.
They are using separate power supply....
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How to set the camera sensor mode with V4L2
I'm referring to the modes listed here.
When capturing video with raspivid, the -md option allows overriding the default mode selection heuristic.
I need to find out how to achieve the same when ...
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What is the correct method for streaming video from the camera module to date? [closed]
I just started experimenting with a new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with the latest Raspbian installed. I was looking for the best way to stream from the camera module and I have found different answers, ...
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Night Mode with Rasperry Pi Zero Camera Module
I'm trying to take some pictures with the Raspberry Pi Zero and the optional camera module in pitch-black. I am wondering what the best options are to use when invoking raspivid. I have tried:
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Streaming video to a <video> tag
I have the Raspberry camera module, and I try to get the following setup to stream live video to a website:
Html code:
<video width="640" height="480" controls autoplay>
<source src="...
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Raspivid fails only when used with gstreamer?
I have a Pi Zero running Raspbian Jessie and a pi camera. I've installed gstreamer with:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0
If I run:
raspivid -w 1280 -h 720 -v -fps 10 -b 500000 -t 0 -o - | \
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Raspivid fails to stream to YouTube - 113 No route to host
I am trying to setup a YouTube livestream. I am using the official Pi cam.
I am using this command:
raspivid -o - -t 0 -vf -hf -fps 30 -b 6000000 | avconv -re -ar 44100 -ac 2 -acodec pcm_s16le -f ...
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Live stream to Youtube - sound sync
I have Raspberry pi 3 model b.
I stream video and sound (from dedicated camera + usb sound card) to Youtube by command:
raspivid -o - -t 0 -vf -hf -fps 30 -b 600000 | ffmpeg -i pipe: -f alsa -ac 1 -i ...
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How to add audio as an input for ffmpeg capturing?
I've been lurking for a while now and I finally created an account because I'm stuck on this particular problem.
I've got a raspberry pi 3 with a camera attached to it. I'm able to capture video as an ...
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Log Raspberry pi time according to GPU (i.e. using real time OS)
Using the below given script, I am able to log camera.timestamp and camera.frame.timestamp. These should ideally be same as they both query GPU System clock time. For example, for 30hz frame-rate, ...
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Compile Raspivid from userland
I downloaded the userland repository from https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland and I wanted to compile just RaspiVid.c file. It's because I wanted to use the RaspiVid.c code in my project. But i ...
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