VIM 5 HDMI Input for Linux

• Connect your VIM 5 HDMI Out to an HDMI Display
• Connect your HDMI OUT cable to VIM 5 HDMI IN port

Execute the HDMI Input demo command sudo hdmiin-demo

If everything is OK you will see the HDMI Input source on your display.

hdmiin_preview_setup # Setup
sudo hdmiin-demo # Preview

Note: You can press ESC key to exit.

You can use gstreamer to capture the HDMI IN frames. Here is en example to capture the HDMI IN frames and encoding them to H264 format and mux to MP4 format store in file /tmp/test71.mp4.

hdmiin_capture_setup # Setup
gst-launch-1.0 -vvv v4l2src device=/dev/video71 io-mode=dmabuf num-buffers=600 ! video/x-raw,format=NV12,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1,interlace-mode=interleaved ! amlvenc ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=test_71.mp4 # Capture frames

You can also use gstreamer plugin glimagesink to preview the HDMI IN frames on the Gnome desktop.

hdmiin_capture_setup # Setup
gst-launch-1.0 -vvv v4l2src device=/dev/video71 io-mode=dmabuf num-buffers=600 ! video/x-raw,format=NV12,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1,interlace-mode=interleaved ! glimagesink # Capture frames

Note: You can press ESC key to exit.

Enable audio:

hdmiin_audio enable

Note: Once the HDMI IN audio is enabled, the system audio will not working anymore, but you can recovery the system audio by disabling the HDMI IN audio.

Disable audio:

hdmiin_audio disable