Feature Request - Video.

[MechanicalPython]

Are there any plans for video support?

[pedrosland]

Hi MechanicalPython. Thanks for your interest.

Originally it was something I considered but I didn't need it and didn't get around to implementing it.

I have more free time now 😂 so I could revisit this. What would you like it to do? What would you do with the video frames?

[MechanicalPython]

Hi pedrosland, thanks for the quick reply!

I'm planning on putting a pi zero with a camera and gps into a water rocket and recording video from the rocket with a pi camera module. So I guess I don't need anything too fancy, just being able to control basics like fps and resolution and then outputting an mp4 or h264 file at the end.

[autodidaddict]

I'm thinking about implementing something like a "ring" doorbell, but for my home office. I'd like to grab a few seconds of video in response to some stimulus, either motion or a button press. I can ship the few second of video off to another server, but I'd like to have a take_video function that just turns on video capture for some n number of seconds.

[pedrosland]

Thanks for the nudge.

I actually implemented this a few weeks ago but extending the SeriousCamera API for video hasn't turned out great and I wasn't happy with it. I still don't like it but I haven't built a better one yet.

I fixed CI so I can put together the rest of an interface for SimpleCamera soon.

Both of your projects sound super fun.

[pedrosland]

There is a branch video I created in early April and it works but there are two problems:

• Sometimes (but not always) when dropping the camera and tidying up there can be a deadlock.
• If someone manually drops the mpsc::Sender after the camera object then it will deadlock or crash (can't remember which).

Realistically, I'm unlikely to fix these issues in the near future.