DietPi-Software | DietPi-Cam (RPi Cam Control v6.2.29): No timelaps video convert

[k-plan]

Tested Hardware:

• RPi Zero W
• RPi Cam v1.3
• or Raspberry Zero mini Camera (JT-ZERO-V2.0)

Software:

• DietPi v1.47
• DietPi Cam (RPi Cam Control v6.2.29) installed via dietpi-software
• Web-server: lighttp

Both cams are up and running fine with DietPi Cam.
Can take pictures, timelaps and videos with this cams.
But converting timelaps pictures into a undercranking via web interface, it will not work.
Converting into a video, preview will shown as "Busy" and nothing will happened.

Web interface show Convert using: gst-launch-1.0 -v multifilesrc location=i_%05d.jpg caps=\"image/jpeg,framerate=\(fraction\)30/1\" ! jpegdec ! queue ! videoscale ! video/x-raw ! queue ! omxh264enc target-bitrate=15000000 control-rate=variable ! video/x-h264, profile=high ! h264parse ! mp4mux ! filesink location=

Fiddling around, I noticed, gst-launch-1.0 isn't installed.

root@RPi-Zero-Cam:~# apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools

But this didn't help. Something more seemingly will be missing.

[Fourdee]

Notes:

apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-omx libav-tools

cd /var/www/dietpicam/media
gst-launch-1.0  -v multifilesrc location=i_%06d.jpg caps=\"image/jpeg,framerate=\(fraction\)30/1\" ! jpegdec ! queue ! videoscale ! video/x-raw ! queue ! omxh264enc target-bitrate=15000000 control-rate=variable ! video/x-h264, profile=high ! h264parse ! mp4mux ! filesink location=

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "multifilesrc"

Looks like multifilesrc is part of good plugin set:
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-multifilesrc.html

apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "omxh264enc"

omxh264enc is part of:

apt-get install gstreamer1.0-omx

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "location"

root@DietPi:/var/www/dietpicam/media# gst-launch-1.0  -v multifilesrc location=i_%05d.jpg caps=\"image/jpeg,framerate=\(fraction\)30/1\" ! jpegdec ! queue ! videoscale ! video/x-raw ! queue ! omxh264enc target-bitrate=15000000 control-rate=variable filesink location=output.avi
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMultiFileSrc:multifilesrc0.GstPad:src: caps = "image/jpeg\,\ framerate\=\(fraction\)30/1"
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstJpegDec:jpegdec0.GstPad:sink: caps = "image/jpeg\,\ framerate\=\(fraction\)30/1"
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMultiFileSrc:multifilesrc0: Error while reading from file "i_00000.jpg".
Additional debug info:
gstmultifilesrc.c(467): gst_multi_file_src_create (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMultiFileSrc:multifilesrc0:
Failed to open file 'i_00000.jpg': No such file or directory
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstJpegDec:jpegdec0.GstPad:sink: caps = "NULL"
/GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstMultiFileSrc:multifilesrc0.GstPad:src: caps = "NULL"
Freeing pipeline ...

[k-plan]

Fiddle around a little bit with motioneye.

So I noticed, where is a newer precompiled ffmpeg_3.1.1-1_armhf.deb for Raspian.
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Install-On-Raspbian

Nice peace of software with a slick web interface.
Focal point are surveillance camera, but it will support Raspberry PI camera module, most USB cameras, IP (network) cameras and direct streams.
Convert to timelapse movies works as well. (tested)

Running on my RPi Zero W, as log as you don't use that much high video resolution and frame rate.

Can be a option or alternative.

[Fourdee]

@k-plan

Interesting, thanks 👍

Seems we already have a request for this aswell:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/718

[Fourdee]

Cant get gstreamer to convert images to video, not sure if syntax is correct, but this everytime:

Failed to open file 'i_00000.jpg': No such file or directory

tl_0000_0001_20170405_121012.jpg

Nope:

gst-launch-1.0  -v multifilesrc location=tl_%04d_%04d_%08d_%06d.jpg caps=\"image/jpeg,framerate=\(fraction\)30/1\" ! jpegdec ! queue ! videoscale ! video/x-raw ! queue ! omxh264enc target-bitrate=15000000 control-rate=variable filesink location=output.avi

Failed to open file 'tl_0000_0628_00000000_000000.jpg': No such file or directory

[Fourdee]

Lets try using FFmpeg and conversion instead:

dietpi-software install 7

cd /var/www/dietpicam/media
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -i 'tl_*.jpg' -vcodec libx264 output.mp4

rm tl_*.jpg

Works, but runs out of memory after 6 images.

Don't have the time to fiddle with this further at the moment. Motion Eye is now available as an alternative with working timelapse.

Marking this as a known issue for now.

[k-plan]

Works, but runs out of memory after 6 images.

Don't have the time to fiddle with this further at the moment. Motion Eye is now available as an alternative with working timelapse.

Marking this as a known issue for now.

Yes, let well alone! 👍

Motion Eye? Yes! 😃

Because it is now documented ... will closed.