September 7th, 2010, 12:18 PM | #1 |
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Using smart phones as a viewfinder
I've been looking online for information regarding using smart phones, such as an iPhone or one of the flavors of the Droid, as a viewer for an external video source, and I haven't been able to find anything. Would someone who has been working on the integration side please point me to how such an integration can be implemented?
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September 9th, 2010, 04:25 AM | #2 |
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More powerful hardware that has emerged recently and the higher resolution displays make this indeed an interesting option.
Android is a Linux flavor and ElphelVision is written in Java as most Android Apps are so that should be a good precondition. Also a lot of emerging tablets with even bigger displays in the 7"-10" range are running Android. My main concerns from software side is that ElphelVision is now using libVLC (mplayer before) to display the live video stream and I am not sure how far the efforts to port VLC to Android have progressed yet, but since everything is open sourced its only a matter of time. From the hardware side the lack of a Ethernet port on all smartphones - and I guess most tablets - might be a problem. There are USB-Ethernet adapters, this would need some testing. |
September 13th, 2010, 06:27 PM | #3 |
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Hm. I spoke with a friend of mine who controls his Canon 5DMkII with his iPhone. He has a WiFi interface plugged into his camera and can view and trigger his shots from his phone. I'm particularly interested due to the resolution of the screen of the iPhone 4 (326dpi?). This, coupled with a diopter like a Z-finder, would be a nice wireless solution if WiFi were implemented on the elphel body.
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