# DriveWorks USB Camera with HDMI Capture Card

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875>\
**Category:** DRIVE AGX Orin General\
**Tags:** driveworks-cameras\
**Created:** [February 23, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875 "2023-02-23T15:43:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![christopher.tuch](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@christopher.tuch](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/christopher.tuch)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875/1 "2023-02-23T15:43:13Z")

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**Software Version**  
 DRIVE OS 6.0.5  
 DRIVE OS 6.0.4 (rev. 1)  
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**Target Operating System**  
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**Hardware Platform**  
 DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-D00)  
 DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-C00)  
 DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (not sure its number)  
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**SDK Manager Version**  
 1.9.1.10844  
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**Host Machine Version**  
 native Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Host installed with SDK Manager  
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Hello NVIDIA,

Since DriveWorks supports USB Cameras, would it be possible to use a HDMI to USB Capture Card, to use the Signal coming from an HDMI Output as a camera in DriveWorks running on the AGX Orin DevKit?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![VickNV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/vicknv/32/14043_2.png) [@VickNV](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/VickNV)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875/2 "2023-02-23T16:58:22Z")

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Hi there,

We haven’t tried using a HDMI to USB capture card with DriveWorks before. However, I’m curious about why you want to do this? Can you provide more details about your use case?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![christopher.tuch](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@christopher.tuch](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/christopher.tuch)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875/3 "2023-02-24T10:45:17Z")

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I think, it should be possible, if the image data coming via HDMI is in the right format (yuv411) DriveWorks should treat the signal like a camera, if I create it using camera.usb, or do you have concerns?

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**Author:** ![VickNV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/vicknv/32/14043_2.png) [@VickNV](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/VickNV)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875/4 "2023-02-24T16:45:55Z")

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While DriveWorks supports USB cameras, we have not tested using an HDMI to USB capture card to capture the signal from an HDMI output and use it as a camera in DriveWorks. DriveWorks camera.usb protocol leverages the OpenCV (USB) library. So if this works on OpenCV, it may work on DriveWorks. However, please note that we cannot guarantee its functionality since it has not been officially tested.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/driveworks-usb-camera-with-hdmi-capture-card/243875/5 "2023-03-17T09:10:40Z")

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