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hybridgroup / node-bebop

A Node.js client for controlling Parrot Bebop & Bebop2 quadcopters.
http://nodebebop.com
MIT License
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Closed Sramir27 closed 7 years ago

Sramir27 commented 7 years ago

Having trouble grabbing the live video stream on my mac. Very new to all of this. was wondering if someone could explain a stepwise process on grabbing the video.

deadprogram commented 7 years ago

Hi, @Sramir27 there is not a step by step guide anywhere, sorry. The assumption is you will know how to work with the h.264 encoded video stream. I would suggest you investigate tools like ffmpeg.

You can run the video.js example like this:

node examples/video.js

which will create a file named video.h264 with the streamed data from the drone. Then in a separate console, you can open a playback window using ffplay (part of ffmpeg):

ffplay ./video.h264

Hope that helps!

Skorkmaz88 commented 7 years ago

I am having issue with h264 file it is size zero and ffplay did not work. System is bebop 2 with firmware 4.0

deadprogram commented 7 years ago

@Skorkmaz88 are you connected to the drone'e wifi network from your computer? Can you run other samples such as https://github.com/hybridgroup/node-bebop/blob/master/examples/takeoff.js and https://github.com/hybridgroup/node-bebop/blob/master/examples/events.js ?