[Elphel-support] using elphel for the first time

[flavio soares]

Hi there, Oleg,

First, thanks for all your help. I have been able to open Elphel and
connect the CF Cards succesfully. At first, I thought the camera hadn't
recognized them because the first interface of the "Disk recorder" page
showed "no devices found", but after messing about a little bit, I found
the page to mount the devices and now I see they are being recognized. I'm
not sure if I can mount both at the same time, but they definitely are
being seen by Elphel!

Now what I'm trying to figure out is how to be able to see a video stream
for the camera (the bicycle guy icon). In my Debian Stable machine, this
icon does not show up. But the image from the lens (a Fujinon MA Z) is
incredible, that can already be seen. The refresh rate here (when turning
on the arrows icon) is good and I can see movement of my hands when I put
them in front of the lens.

In my Debian Testing laptop, there is the bicycle guy icon, but whenever I
click on it, only a black screen shows up.

Is there any program that I need to be able to have a video stream? I tried
using MPlayer and VLC manually to see their output and they go below. I'm
not sure if I have to change anything from the camera to be able to stream
from it... Please, any links that can help me here will be apreciated - I
will also update Elphel's wiki with this information.

thanks Oleg!

flavio


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------MPLAYER OUTPUT

livre at pina:~/Desktop/ElphelVision$ mplayer rtsp://192.168.1.9:554 -vo -x11
-zoom
MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing rtsp://192.168.1.9:554.
Resolving 192.168.1.9 for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 192.168.1.9
Connecting to server 192.168.1.9[192.168.1.9]: 554...

rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'unknown'.
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://192.168.1.9:554
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Initiated "video/JPEG" RTP subsession on port 42242
VIDEO:  [MJPG]  0x0  0bpp  29.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

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----VLC OUTPUT


livre at pina:~/Desktop/ElphelVision$ vlc rtsp://192.168.1.9:554 -V x11
--rtsp-caching=50
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
Warning: option --rtsp-caching no longer exists.
Warning: option --rtsp-caching no longer exists.
[0x8257038] dbus interface: listening on dbus as: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc
[0x80d68f0] main libvlc: Executando o VLC com a interface padrão. Use
'cvlc' para usar o VLC sem interface.
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve
property `gtk-alternative-sort-arrows' of type `gboolean' from rc file
value "((GString*) 0x8163240)" of type `gboolean'
[0x83ad0d8] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x8371be0] live555 demux error: no data received in 10s, aborting
[0x8361688] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with
rtsp://192,168,1,9:554
[0x83ac1e0] main access error: cannot resolve 192,168,1,9 port 554 : Nome
ou serviço desconhecido
[0x83ac1e0] access_realrtsp access error: cannot connect to 192,168,1,9:554
[0x847d9a0] main input error: open of `rtsp://192,168,1,9:554' failed
[0x84867f0] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with rtsp://192,168,1,9
[0x8498978] main access error: cannot resolve 192,168,1,9 port 554 : Nome
ou serviço desconhecido
[0x8498978] access_realrtsp access error: cannot connect to 192,168,1,9:554
[0x84919d8] main input error: open of `rtsp://192,168,1,9' failed
[0x8483c58] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with rtsp://
192.168.1.9:554
[0x84868b8] main input error: open of `rtsp://192.168.1.9:554' failed
[0x8481d70] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x8496870] live555 demux error: no data received in 10s, aborting
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