Questions tagged [raspivid]
the command line tool for capturing video with the Pi's camera module.
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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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PiCam Not Working (At All)
As I recently bought the Picam, I tried capturing an image with :
raspistill -v -o file.jpg
But I got this error :
"No data received from sensor. Check all connections, including the Sunny one on ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How would I measure performance of Motion vs raspivid?
I'm new-ish to programing, and a total n00b to RPIs. I have a RPI 3, with the raspicam V2, and I'm trying to figure out which app draws less resources, between Motion ( http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/...
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Raspivid : start / stop with a buffer
Raspivid is straight forward: on start it records.
Is there latency between CLI call at real start ?
Is there a trick to record 5s before start ? (This would require buffering somehow 5s ?)
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Trying to use Raspivid into ffmpeg, says "failed to open segment"
I am trying to use raspivid as an input for ffmpeg
I'm testing the {code from this question}(How can I stream H.264 video from the Raspberry Pi camera module via a web server?). Initially I was using ...
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Raspberry Pi is showing blank screen after reboot
I am using rpi 5mp camera with rpi 3. But using the raspistill or raspivid :-
$ raspistill -o ~/Pictures/first_image.jpg
threw the following error
bash raspistill command not found
Also using ...
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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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Random Raspivid failure: tvservice-client
In my application, I run raspivid from Python via subprocess, typically raspivid -t 10000 -o vid.avi. (This is a permanently running app in which an outside event triggers the recording.) Sometimes, ...
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HQ Camera with GPI Case
I have a Rbpi 4, 4gb with a HQ camera sensor on its way.
I looked at the GPI case, very cool design.
Could I use its buttons for camera purposes? Like code them to; turn on/off, shutter/record button? ...
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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 equivalent for USB camera
I'm using a Raspberry Pi Camera Module in my project. I have Java code that creates a new process that starts raspivid and have it output the video feed to stdout. Java then reads that and processes ...
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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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difference between raspivid/raspistill and raspiraw HW access
Are there are fundamental differences in the way raspivid/raspistill and raspiraw access the camera HW. Browsing the code they all seem similar and use mmal components to process/display the images. (...
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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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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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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
and with python
camera.start_preview()
camera....
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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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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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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 - | \
gst-...
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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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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 ...
