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RPi Video CamCorder ???

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Ben

I saw your show for the very first time today, and have been completely blown away by your 3D printer...

At 61 years old I have tried to stay up with technology but it changes faster than I do...l OH WELL..

I am looking for a way to use an old vhs camcorder ... you know the huge ones... and gut it .. use the

existing camera, power, and controls... and a Pi and have a DV recorder !!!!

The old VHS Camcorders have the stibility that I am looking for But I dont have 3K to spend...

Any suggestions on where to get info on what video capture programs are available for the Pi.. and

Building Ideas  ( would be a great show... )

Thanks Gregg

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    I am doing something similar for my Makerfaire project using the pcDuino (competitor cheap linux board), and I haven't found any real good ways to do this.  You can use Python to access the IO and then use SimpleCV and a webcam to do still pictures and to supposedly do video without sound, though I can't seem to get the video to work, some codec issue.  It all turns out green, which is weird because it works somewhat by saving successive pictures to a video stream, and all my images look good, but the video is green. 

     

    Anyways, right now I am going down the road of using Python to run a command line version of Mencoder.  The sticking point right now, is I don't know how to stop the recording as I typically hit CTL + C to end the recording in the terminal, but I don't think my script can pass that command or cancel the running process?  Not really sure, I've never really used Python before.

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    Also, for camera, I'm not sure about the Raspberry Pi cam, but UVC compatible webcams support USB Video Class and are linux compatible.  I found a cheap MS one on Amazon for like $18.

     

    Also for software, some suggested PyFFmpeg.  I'm going to try that route for a bit.

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