Thread: [Announce] Smartcam Maemo 5 Port - Now with more Qt
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azkay is offline azkay
2011-03-29 , 12:47
Posts: 395 | Thanked: 509 times | Joined on Jan 2011 @ Brisbane, Australia
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And you did run ./smartcam-m5-install.sh as root?

Originally Posted by Radu View Post
Thanks, great application, works fine after manually installing mono as described earlier in this thread. Perhaps the mono installation could be automated in the initial sh script.
I also had gstreamer hang and eating my CPU, had to kill it manually.

Anyway, is there any place where I can modify the parameters gstreamer is invoked with, such as changing the video size/quality? Thank you!
Yeah, sorry for being so slow with updating, last 2 days ive been setting up Linux on my laptop and its just died again, so ive been trying to figure out why it wont boot up.

The quality slider sets the quality from 0~90, I found anything higher than 90, the video just basically died and want to really inconsistent fps (0~1fps, every few frames were blank, etcetc).

The video size theres no point changing because the Windows side Smartcam only supports 320x240 or 160x120, I might be able to look at recompiling it to support higher res, but I wouldnt count on it for a little while, C++ hurts my head. If I was "set" on recompiling the PC side, it would probably end up being changed more, maybe so gstreamer can send the frames directly to the server, without going through the local server on the n900 first (Currently it goes, N900 app > gstreamer > N900 app > PC). If I recompiled it to take a udp stream instead, without adding on the custom headers and such, it would completely take off the N900 server dependency and could probably lower usage quite a bit. The GUI on the N900 would effectively be only a GUI, with no other processing.

/walloftext

EDIT::
Actually. Im going to go to bed, wake up, try to fix the laptop as fast as possible, then look at what I mentioned above. Now its made me curious, seems like a nice challenge to pass some time and keep practicing my coding.

If I can get anywhere, after a few days/weeks, I could have a "proof of concept" sort of thing happening, after that maybe even a complete smartcam port (PC and N900 side), specifically tailored for N900 use.

EDIT::
If you cant get it installed before I wake up, once I get linux working on my laptop, ill make a video on installing it or something.
Last edited by azkay; 2011-03-29 at 12:51.