Alex Eames has documented a piece of info from Matthew Manning’s video about using MP4Box to convert the raw H264 output of the camera to an MP4 format. Read more here
Category: Tutorials
#RaspberryPi advanced camera features
Matthew Manning, who I met on Saturday, from Raspberry Pi IV Beginners, has done a great video that takes you through step-by-step how to do some fairly advanced things with the camera module. This includes streaming and timelapse.
Stream video from your #RaspberryPi camera to your Android device
Alex has written another of his excellent tutorials. This time he covers streaming the camera output to a Nexus 7. This method also works for the Samsung Galaxy Note II (and, I’d imagine, any recent Android device that’s capable of…
Stream the #RaspberryPi camera module through your browser
Using a combination of the things I’ve learned up to now and a little help from others on the internet, I’ve worked out how to embed video from the Raspberry Pi camera module inside a web-page. There are two methods…
Streaming from the #RaspberryPi to Windows 7 64-bit
After trying the instructions here to use netcat and mplayer to stream from the Raspberry Pi camera module to Windows, I found that although the cache filled on the Windows machine, indicating that data was being received, mplayer never launched. I…
RasPi.TV does the #RaspberryPi camera module
Alex Eames has done an excellent tutorial on capturing video with the Raspberry Pi camera module and converting it into an MP4 file suitable for video editing with Pinnacle or other video editing software. Head on over to RasPi.TV to…
Find missing commands on your #RaspberryPi
Just saw this on the Raspberry Pi Forums from ‘sprinkmeier’ but haven’t tried it yet. If, like me, you need to run a command, but it’s not installed, and you haven’t a clue how to find the right apt-get package, this is…
Installing avconv on the #RaspberryPi
Some of you with the camera may have been trying to install avconv by using the following: sudo apt-get install avconv As you have probably discovered, this does not work and it reports that it cannot find the package. (I…
Easy timelapse with the #RaspberryPi camera module
The Raspberry Pi camera module has built-in timelapse functionality. Here’s a command to try: raspistill -o timelapse%04d.jpg -t 5000 -tl 1000 This will make a time lapse run for 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds), taking a picture every 1 second (1000…
Convert #RaspberryPi camera module output to MP4 or FLV
Once the camera module has captured video, you are left with an raw H264 file. Now, some players can already play this but what you really want to do is convert it to a common format like MP4. (This is…