Using freerunner as webcam display

Fri Sep 3 19:03:01 CEST 2010

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> Dnia 2010年09月03日, pi? o godzinie 13:52 +0200, Alexander Lehner pisze:
>> Hi,
>>>> I've got a TrentNET wireless webcam and just found out how to access its 
>> mpeg4 video stream and am using now my GPS-broken freerunner as permanent 
>> display for this webcam:
>>>> mplayer -nosound -vf rotate=2 -vo fbdev rtsp://<webcam-ipaddr>:554/mpeg4
> Nice one :).
>>> I had to turn down the cam's fps to 2 for a real-time video without delay.
> Did you discovered what is the bottleneck?

I think it's the CPU which is around 90% already at 2fps.
Another problem is, that the mpeg stream sometimes seems to be corrupt 
which crashess mplayer after some time.
So I did a 'while true; do mplayer...; done' around and set codecs and 
other parameters by hand to avoid the autodetection.
BR,
Alex.
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