thinkski / coralvid

Command line tool for capturing video with the Google Coral EdgeTPU camera module. Akin to raspivid for the Raspberry Pi.

coralvid

Command line tool for capturing video with the Google Coral EdgeTPU camera module.

Quickstart

Build:

mendel@edgetpu:~/coralvid$ mkdir build
mendel@edgetpu:~/coralvid$ cd build
mendel@edgetpu:~/coralvid/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
mendel@edgetpu:~/coralvid/build$ make
mendel@edgetpu:~/coralvid/build$ sudo make install

The above is for on-target builds. Cross-compilation is left as an exercise to the reader.

Print usage:

mendel@edgetpu:~$ coralvid --help
Capture H264 from CSI/MIPI camera at the requested bitrate

usage: coralvid [options]

Options:
  -b, --bitrate=<int>   Bitrate in Kbps (default: 1000)
  -f, --fps=<int>       Frame rate (default: 30)
  -h, --height=<int>    Frame height (default: 720)
  -w, --width=<int>     Frame width (default: 1280)
  -i, --input=<device>  Input device (default: /dev/video0)
  -n, --num-buffers=<n> Number of video buffers (default: 4)
  -o, --output=<file>   Output file (default: stdout)
  -p, --profile=<str>   H.264 profile (default: baseline)
  -t, --timeout=<int>   Seconds to capture (default: 10)
      --autofocus       Enable autofocus
      --help            Print this message
  -v, --version         Print version
      --verbose         Print frames/sec information

Capture sample:

mendel@edgetpu:~$ coralvid -o sample.264