This document mainly introduces OS08A10 MIPI Camera. The document is divided into two parts,The first part of the document describes how to connect. The second part introduces How to record video via Gstreamer and test your camera under Ubuntu.

Please check the documentation to identify your VIM4 version.

The video node for MIPI camera is /dev/video50.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gstreamer-aml

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video50 io-mode=mmap num-buffers=300 ! video/x-raw,format=NV12 ! amlvenc bitrate=8000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=test_50.mp4

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libopencv-dev python3-opencv

mipi-camera.cpp

#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using
namespace  cv;
 
using
namespace  std;
 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int count=100;
    string str = argv[1];
    string res=str.substr(10);
    VideoCapture capture(stoi(res), CAP_V4L2);
    capture.set(CAP_PROP_FOURCC, VideoWriter::fourcc('U','Y','V','Y'));
    capture.set(CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 1920);
    capture.set(CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT, 1080);
    while (count)
    {
        Mat frame;
        capture >> frame;
 
        if (frame.empty()) {
            break;
        }
        int h = frame.rows;
        int w = frame.cols;
        const char *name = "video";
        namedWindow(name, 0);
        imshow(name, frame);
        waitKey(30);
        count--;
    }
    return 0;
}

mipi-camera.cpp

#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using
namespace  cv;
 
using
namespace  std;
 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    int count=100;
    string str = argv[1];
    string gstformat = "NV12";
    string gstfile = "v4l2src device=" + str + " ! video/x-raw,format=" + gstformat + ",width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1 ! videoconvert ! appsink";
    VideoCapture capture(gstfile);
 
    while (count)
    {
        Mat frame;
        capture >> frame;
 
        if (frame.empty()) {
            break;
        }
        int h = frame.rows;
        int w = frame.cols;
        const char *name = "video";
        namedWindow(name, 0);
        imshow(name, frame);
        waitKey(30);
        count--;
    }
    return 0;
}

Compile:

gcc -o mipi mipi-camera.cpp -lopencv_imgproc -lopencv_core -lopencv_videoio -lopencv_imgcodecs -lopencv_highgui -std=c++11 -std=gnu++11 -Wall -std=c++11 -lstdc++ -I/usr/include/opencv4

Test:

./mipi /dev/video50

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