Launch and configuration files for cameras connected to BlackMagic DeckLink capture cards
- GSCAM. It is a ROS camera driver that uses gstreamer to connect to devices such as webcams. To compile GSCAM these system packages are required:
- libgstreamer0.10-dev
- libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad system package.
- BlackMagic DeckLink drivers for Linux.
The DeckLink drivers for your card can be downloaded from the manufacturer web page. Yet, in scripts
folder there is a script which download a install it into the system:
$ scripts/install_libdecklink.sh
There are two ROS launch files in launch
folder:
launch/decklink.launch
by default, launch a GSCAM node for the first DeckLink capture card. It is configured for a camera connected through HDMI input.launch/launch.launch
, example of how to launch several GSCAM nodes. One for each DeckLink capture card.