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Jetson TK1 with Logitech c920 Webcam for Vision and Video Projects

The Logitech c920 webcam is one of the candidates for providing video streams for the Vision and Video project that I am working on. In particular, the c920 is interesting because it can stream H.264 encoded video from the camera itself. Here’s the video:

The Jetson TK1 board has a hardware H.264 encoder, so why is encoding on the camera itself a point of interest? Remembering at this point I’m just doing some basic experimenting, I thought it would be interesting to see how many video streams I can bring into the Jetson, with the idea that the streams themselves would be stored locally on the Jetson and then uploaded to a server.

I don’t know how many video streams the Jetson on board encoder can encode simultaneously (I’m assuming it’s one, but I don’t know), but it would be nice to have a Jetson node handle several video streams. If several cameras are recording a scene simultaneously, it would be nice to know how many Jetsons are needed per set of cameras. Certain sources, such as depth cameras (like a MS Kinect) may need to have their video encoded too, which would have to be handled by the Jetson. Having at least one of the streams already encoded could raise throughput considerably.

The architecture that I have in mind currently is that I would have a couple of ‘video capture’ Jetson nodes, with perhaps a small display attached for monitoring, networked with a video server. The video capture nodes would upload their video streams to the video server.

Several ‘Video Display’ Jetson nodes could then connect to the video server to view the results of the node processing. But, I’m getting ahead of myself here, that’s still some time away …

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  1. nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ lsusb
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    Bus 001 Device 006: ID 046d:085c Logitech, Inc.
    Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:008a Lite-On Technology Corp.
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120
    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 –all
    Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
    Driver name : tegra-video
    Card type : vi-output, ov5693 2-0036
    Bus info : platform:15700000.vi:2
    Driver version: 4.4.15
    Capabilities : 0x84200001
    Video Capture
    Streaming
    Extended Pix Format
    Device Capabilities

    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video1 –all
    Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
    Driver name : uvcvideo
    Card type : C922 Pro Stream Webcam
    Bus info : usb-3530000.xhci-2.4
    Driver version: 4.4.15
    Capabilities : 0x84200001
    Video Capture
    Streaming
    Extended Pix Format
    Device Capabilities
    Device Caps : 0x04200001
    Video Capture
    Streaming
    Extended Pix Format

    I C922 not work because JetsonTX2 use /device0
    Can I change C922 to /device0?

  2. kangalow

    I follow your Jetpack install https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7lkth34rgM&t=457s
    I try to use Cheese for webcam.I found it not work
    but i try
    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! video/x-raw, width=1280, height=720 ! xvimagesink
    I found it work.I guess device=/dev/video1
    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 –all
    Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
    Driver name : tegra-video
    Card type : vi-output, ov5693 2-0036
    Bus info : platform:15700000.vi:2
    Driver version: 4.4.15
    Capabilities : 0x84200001
    Video Capture
    Streaming
    Extended Pix Format
    Device Capabilities

    nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video1 –all
    Driver Info (not using libv4l2):
    Driver name : uvcvideo
    Card type : C922 Pro Stream Webcam
    Bus info : usb-3530000.xhci-2.4
    Driver version: 4.4.15
    Capabilities : 0x84200001

    C922 not work because JetsonTX2 use /dev/device0
    Can I change C922 to /dev/device0

    Please advise me.

  3. If i change to /dev/video1 It work.
    But i would like to config to change /dev/video0 to /dev/video1 permanent.

    Thank you.

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