Software

Elphel Vision

We are working on a touch screen based camera control interface with all basic camera controls, live preview and probably an integrated file browser to view the recorded files on the HDD. This interface will work together nicely with the hardware buttons and rotary encoders (see Dictator project) and/or a touchscreen tablet PC.


Concept Design for the Elphel Vision software.

 





The interface before the 0.3 Alpha release.

 


ElphelVision running on EeePC connected to camera over Wifi

Technical Specs

  • developed as Java Applet using Mplayer to display the live video stream.
  • free software (see License below)
  • live histograms
  • audio monitoring
  • lots of features & full manual control of all camera parameters

License

ElphelVision is released under the GNU GPL V3.

Download

Download ElphelVision Alpha 0.2

Download ElphelVision Alpha 0.1

Source Code

The complete source code is available via SVN hosted by the Elphel project on sourceforge. Please read this.


Task: Video Clip Browser

We are looking for someone to develop a clip browser that allows: easy transfer of recorded files from the camera to a host computer with validation (md5 most likely), easy viewing of copied clips with navigation-timeline, viewing of metadata/exif tags, transcoding of video files to different formats (JP4 sequence to DNG sequence for example). Ideally this clip browser is platform independent.
Similar to Sonys: XDCAM Clip Browser or Panasonics P2 Viewer


Contacts

Please contact us when you decide to start working on this task so we can add a note to the task history about your goals.


History

13th Oct. 2009: Task openend

 


Video-Codecs used by the camera

  • Quicktime *.mov (MJPEG compression, Jpeg quality can freely be adjusted to anything between 0-99%),
  • JP4 RAW (requires post production)
  • Ogg Theora *.ogm
  • JPEG sequence (with EXIF data (camera parameters) plus optional tags like geo information/GPS coordinates).

Future codec may be

  • Dirac
  • series of dng files (adobe standard for digital negatives)

other recording software

  • video disk recorder and file browser (camogmgui)
This is the current disk recorder running on the camera.

Post Production

JP4 (RAW)

Experimental Avisynth plugin to demosaic JP4 video by Steven Mingam.

Experimental Avisynth plugin to demosaic JP4 video by Konstantin Kim.