I was pointed to this mailing list as a good place to get answers to a question about dealing with video. I want to assign some course projects using video in the real-time and embedded systems courses that I teach. The hardware that we are using is fixed. It is a Pentium-class processor in a ruggedized case with parallel port, serial ports, USB, and digital I/O. The system runs VxWorks. My first thought was to buy some cheap USB cameras and use them. Then I found out that all use different proprietary interfaces none of which are publicly documented. I know that there has been reverse engineering of some interfaces to develop Linux drivers for a number of cameras. I could use one of those drivers as a start and work at a port of it to our VxWorks environment for use in my courses. My latest thinking is to use a cheap board camera that outputs NTSC video, put that through a video-to-USB converter instead and do a similar port of a driver. Is there another approach anyone can suggest? Anyone have an idea on the "best" approach. Best camera if USB, best converter board and board camera for that approach? I would like to keep the set up in the $100 to 200 range but could go higher and cut back on the number of setups I have available. Thanks for any information. Jim -- Jim Vallino Rochester Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Software Engineering http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv 134 Lomb Memorial Drive (585)475-2991 Fax: (585)475-7909 Rochester, NY 14623-5608 _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing list
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