Difference between revisions of "Activities/Record"

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Record developers' page

Overview

Record is the basic rich-media capture activity for the laptop. It lets you capture still images, video, and/or audio. It has a simple interface and works in both laptop and ebook mode. An interface for sharing pictures among multi XOs during a picture-taking session is a hallmark of the Record activity.

Usage

Record Activity Manual

Environment variables

GST_DEBUG enable gstreamer logging
- 0 NONE
- 1 ERROR
- 2 WARNING
- 3 INFO
- 4 DEBUG
- 5 LOG

Using Record with external cameras

If the camera is recognized, a device /dev/video1 will be created. You may need check using Terminal. The internal device is usually /dev/video0, but this is not guaranteed.

To use a external camera, you can apply this patch

diff --git a/glive.py b/glive.py
index 9f8c5fa..d2207e7 100644
--- a/glive.py
+++ b/glive.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ class Glive:
 
     def _detect_camera(self):
         v4l2src = gst.element_factory_make('v4l2src')
+        v4l2src.set_property('device', '/dev/video1')
         if v4l2src.props.device_name is None:
             return

Supporting more than one camera without a patch is the subject of ticket #4859.

Resources

Sources
Sugar Activity Library page
OLPC:Record
Trac tickets: OLPC record-activity, OLPC camera-activity, Sugar Labs

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 === Using Record with external cameras ===
-If the camera is recognized, a device /dev/video1 will be created (you need check in your Terminal.
+If the camera is recognized, a device /dev/video1 will be created.  You may need check using Terminal.
-The internal device is /dev/video0
+The internal device is usually /dev/video0, but this is not guaranteed.
 To use a external camera, you can apply this patch
@@ Line 38: / Line 38: @@
               return
   </nowiki>
+Supporting more than one camera without a patch is the subject of ticket [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4859 #4859].
 ===Resources===
-* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/record Sources]
+* [https://github.com/godiard/record-activity.git Sources]
 * [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4081 Sugar Activity Library page]
 * [[OLPC:Record]]
 * Trac tickets: [http://dev.laptop.org/query?component=record-activity&col=id&col=summary&col=type&col=status&col=priority&col=milestone&col=time&col=changetime&order=priority OLPC record-activity], [http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=camera-activity&order=id&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone OLPC camera-activity], [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?component=Record&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=type&col=status&col=priority&col=milestone&col=time&col=changetime&order=priority Sugar Labs]