Palantir - Streaming Video on WL-500g

[WlanMan]

Hi

I got Palantir, the Streaming Audio and Video Server running on the 500g, now getting rid of the buggy activex stuff and adding audio and live video.

Will post the Bins tomorrow.

http://www.fastpath.it/products/palantir

Greets

[hugo]

I'm waiting eagerly for it! Thanks for your work

[WlanMan]

Hi

Decompress it to the root of an external flashdisk or harddisk , and then cd to
/tmp/harddisk/palantir/bin , there you can start it with ./palantir .
The configuration is tested with a Philips Vesta Pro.
You need to disable webcam from web interface and insmod videodev.o and pwc.o manualy before starting palantir.
You can open the firewall outwards with "iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --syn --dport 3000 -j ACCEPT" and "iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --syn --dport 3001 -j ACCEPT".
palantir -h gives some runtime-adjustable settings.

Have fun
P.s: I Would be glad to hear if Audio is working, the sound part of the cam is working with the kernal, and palantir taps into it but on my tests i cant hear anything.

[hugo]

This is working great; I'm looking into the sound and maybe a higher resolution using pwcx

I'm also posting a tool that might be of help for your cam to tweak white balance and other parameters.

[hugo]

Anybody got this file? pwcx-8.2.2.tar.gz

I can only find gentoo linux pre compiled files. I'm looking for the real sources. This would allow 320x240 on palantir

[Oleg]

you mean 640x480?
read nemosoft page, pwcx are binaries, there is no sources available.

[hugo]

Sources are available for version 9 but the firmware only have version8. Pwcx will only work with same version of pwc drivers. There is a precompiled lib necessary to make the kernel module, but you still need to make the module by itself.

You need to use pwcx for 320x240 if framerate is set over 5 fps, which is the case on vesion compiled by Wlanman. This is from palantir website FAQ.

Version 9 is not specific to kernel 2.4.20, but the version I requested is.

[WlanMan]

Hi

Lowering to 10fps should be ok i think, i got not much more out of the device here.
This is palantir with background darkstats and ftp transfer running. ftp speed was around 400k and stable.

Dec 26 13:42:30 [http] 192.168.1.20:1239: wrote 214 [+0] frames (685369 bytes) in 39.20 s - 5.46 f/s, 17.07 kB/s, 3.13 kB/f
Dec 26 13:42:30 [main] Capture thread stopped - 231 frames in 42.58 s (5.42 f/s)
Dec 26 13:42:30 [main] 0 client(s) connected

And this without massive backgrond jobs:

Dec 26 13:46:47 [http] 192.168.1.20:1353: wrote 151 [+0] frames (484060 bytes) in 15.38 s - 9.82 f/s, 30.73 kB/s, 3.13 kB/f
Dec 26 13:46:47 [main] Capture thread stopped - 191 frames in 19.53 s (9.78 f/s)
Dec 26 13:46:47 [main] 0 client(s) connected

Greets

[hugo]

I changed the line 209 in video.c and replaced 30 by 5. After making it, I can run palantir succesfully and get one picture, but then I get a segmentation fault. Did you experience the same behaviour on your source, or did you make some modifications to make it work?

BTW, I cannot make the pwc version 10.0.6a source. I stil havent found how to redirect to opt kernel source instread of my linux distro ones.

[WlanMan]

I changed the line 209 in video.c and replaced 30 by 5. After making it, I can run palantir succesfully and get one picture, but then I get a segmentation fault. Did you experience the same behaviour on your source, or did you make some modifications to make it work?

Hmm, did just that and a minimal typo in the error output.
The Stream Works and has never made a segfault, but it sometimes hangs up the picture transmission while still thinking it runs, when i do some fast pagereloads on the direkt stream.
Overall, it works quite stable and i had no trouble on x86 with it, but not extensively tested.

Does had sound worked ?

Greets

[hugo]

nope, the server is very stable, now with the pwc ver 9 drivers, but I could never get a sound, even if I have a vista pro.

I don't even get a /dev/dsp or anything that could be producing some sound. Do you have something more than me? I've seen in you config the reference to the /dev/dsp?

[WlanMan]

ything that could be producing some sound. Do you have something more than me? I've seen in you config the reference to the /dev/dsp?

## AudioCaptureDevice: audio device to capture from.
## Default is /dev/dsp.
#
AudioCaptureDevice /dev/sound/dsp

The Dev Filesys is someway other organised

usbaudio: registered dsp 14,3
usbaudio: constructing mixer for Terminal 3 type 0x0101
usbaudio: warning: found 1 of 0 logical channels.
usbaudio: assuming the channel found is the master channel (got a Philips Camera?). Should be fine.
usbaudio: registered mixer 14,0

I Get this and some lines before with my vesta pro. no extra drivers are installed.

Greets

[FilimoniC]

OffTopic:
I didn't understand...
What can be source for this soft?
Can it be my WebCamera? VideoCamera?

[WlanMan]

Yep

With this Software you can get a video Stream from your Webcam instead of still pictures, of course if it´s a camera suported by the drivers of the firmware (philips an OV51x Chipsets).

Greets

[FilimoniC]

Yep

With this Software you can get a video Stream from your Webcam instead of still pictures, of course if it´s a camera suported by the drivers of the firmware (philips an OV51x Chipsets).

Greets

thx.
And can i make thomething like Nullsoft ShoutCast Server (no video) with it?