JETPACK 4.2 - JETSON TX2 - OpenCV 3.4.6 - GStreamer - Problem with on-board camera

Hello,

I want use the on board camera of the TX2 dev board for a gimbal student university project. But I have trouble to make it working properly. Any advice will be welcome :-)

I installed the JETPACK 4.2 on my TX2 successfully from a ubuntu Host with sdkmanager-0.9.13-4763-amd64.deb.

Then I wanted to install OpenCV 3.4.6
I Use different Tuto from

  • Jetson Hack : https://www.jetsonhacks.com/2018/05/28/build-opencv-3-4-with-cuda-on-nvidia-jetson-tx2/
  • JK Jung : https://jkjung-avt.github.io/opencv3-on-tx2/

Thank you very much, It was very helpful, unfortunately, none of this script worked directly… but at the end of the day, I think I succeeded to build openCv 3.4.6.

I perform a print(cv2.getBuildInformation())
here is the result :

General

 configuration for OpenCV 3.4.6 =====================================
  Version control:               unknown

  Platform:
    Timestamp:                   2019-08-04T19:05:44Z
    Host:                        Linux 4.9.140-tegra aarch64
    CMake:                       3.10.2
    CMake generator:             Unix Makefiles
    CMake build tool:            /usr/bin/make
    Configuration:               RELEASE

  CPU/HW features:
    Baseline:                    NEON FP16
      required:                  NEON
      disabled:                  VFPV3

  C/C++:
    Built as dynamic libs?:      YES
    C++11:                       YES
    C++ Compiler:                /usr/bin/c++  (ver 7.4.0)
    C++ flags (Release):         -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG  -DNDEBUG
    C++ flags (Debug):           -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -g  -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
    C Compiler:                  /usr/bin/cc
    C flags (Release):           -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG  -DNDEBUG
    C flags (Debug):             -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -g  -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
    Linker flags (Release):      -Wl,--gc-sections  
    Linker flags (Debug):        -Wl,--gc-sections  
    ccache:                      NO
    Precompiled headers:         YES
    Extra dependencies:          m pthread cudart_static -lpthread dl rt nppc nppial nppicc nppicom nppidei nppif nppig nppim nppist nppisu nppitc npps cublas cufft -L/usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64 -L/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu
    3rdparty dependencies:

  OpenCV modules:
    To be built:                 calib3d core cudaarithm cudabgsegm cudacodec cudafeatures2d cudafilters cudaimgproc cudalegacy cudaobjdetect cudaoptflow cudastereo cudawarping cudev dnn features2d flann highgui imgcodecs imgproc ml objdetect photo python2 python3 shape stitching superres video videoio videostab
    Disabled:                    world
    Disabled by dependency:      -
    Unavailable:                 java js ts viz
    Applications:                apps
    Documentation:               NO
    Non-free algorithms:         NO

  GUI: 
    GTK+:                        YES (ver 3.22.30)
      GThread :                  YES (ver 2.56.4)
      GtkGlExt:                  NO
    VTK support:                 NO

  Media I/O: 
    ZLib:                        /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so (ver 1.2.11)
    JPEG:                        /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so (ver 80)
    WEBP:                        build (ver encoder: 0x020e)
    PNG:                         /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpng.so (ver 1.6.34)
    TIFF:                        /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so (ver 42 / 4.0.9)
    JPEG 2000:                   build (ver 1.900.1)
    OpenEXR:                     build (ver 1.7.1)
    HDR:                         YES
    SUNRASTER:                   YES
    PXM:                         YES

  Video I/O:
    DC1394:                      YES (ver 2.2.5)
    FFMPEG:                      YES
      avcodec:                   YES (ver 57.107.100)
      avformat:                  YES (ver 57.83.100)
      avutil:                    YES (ver 55.78.100)
      swscale:                   YES (ver 4.8.100)
      avresample:                NO
    GStreamer:                   
      base:                      YES (ver 1.14.4)
      video:                     YES (ver 1.14.4)
      app:                       YES (ver 1.14.4)
      riff:                      YES (ver 1.14.4)
      pbutils:                   YES (ver 1.14.4)
    libv4l/libv4l2:              1.14.2 / 1.14.2
    v4l/v4l2:                    linux/videodev2.h

  Parallel framework:            pthreads

  Trace:                         YES (built-in)

  Other third-party libraries:
    Lapack:                      YES (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblapack.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libcblas.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libatlas.so)
    Eigen:                       YES (ver 3.3.4)
    Custom HAL:                  YES (carotene (ver 0.0.1))
    Protobuf:                    build (3.5.1)

  NVIDIA CUDA:                   YES (ver 10.0, CUFFT CUBLAS)
    NVIDIA GPU arch:             62
    NVIDIA PTX archs:

  OpenCL:                        YES (no extra features)
    Include path:                /home/gimbal/src/opencv-3.4.6/3rdparty/include/opencl/1.2
    Link libraries:              Dynamic load

  Python 2:
    Interpreter:                 /usr/bin/python2.7 (ver 2.7.15)
    Libraries:                   /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so (ver 2.7.15+)
    numpy:                       /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.16.4)
    install path:                lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cv2/python-2.7

  Python 3:
    Interpreter:                 /usr/bin/python3 (ver 3.6.8)
    Libraries:                   /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so (ver 3.6.8)
    numpy:                       /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.13.3)
    install path:                lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cv2/python-3.6

  Python (for build):            /usr/bin/python2.7

  Java:                          
    ant:                         NO
    JNI:                         NO
    Java wrappers:               NO
    Java tests:                  NO

  Install to:                    /usr/local
-----------------------------------------------------------------

OpenCV version: 3.4.6

Is OpenCV install was done properly ?

Then I try to use the onboard Camera on the TX2 dev board with this Python :

It’s not working on my setup…

I try to understand, but I need your light on.

When I try to run the cannyDetection.py, nothing happens, then when I force to stop the terminal, I get this error message :

(python:8510): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 04:24:31.806: 
Trying to dispose element capsfilter1, but it is in PAUSED instead of the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
This problem may also be caused by a refcounting bug in the
application or some element.

(python:8510): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 04:24:31.807: 
Trying to dispose element capsfilter0, but it is in PAUSED instead of the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
This problem may also be caused by a refcounting bug in the
application or some element.

(python:8510): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 04:24:31.807: 
Trying to dispose element nvvconv0, but it is in PAUSED instead of the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
This problem may also be caused by a refcounting bug in the
application or some element.

(python:8510): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 04:24:31.808: 
Trying to dispose element pipeline0, but it is in READY instead of the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.
This problem may also be caused by a refcounting bug in the
application or some element.

(python:8510): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 04:24:31.809: gst_element_get_state: assertion 'GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
VIDEOIO ERROR: V4L: device nvcamerasrc ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)640, height=(int)480, format=(string)I420, framerate=(fraction)30/1 ! nvvidconv ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink: Unable to query number of channels
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./cannyDetection.py", line 134, in <module>
    video_capture=open_onboard_camera()
  File "./cannyDetection.py", line 40, in open_onboard_camera
    return cv2.VideoCapture("nvcamerasrc ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)640, height=(int)480, format=(string)I420, framerate=(fraction)30/1 ! nvvidconv ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink")
KeyboardInterrupt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It seems Gstreamer to be the problem, please could you confirm ?

Thank you very much

Please try to confirm the gstreamer functionality w/o using opencv first.

If don’t know how to, please refer to our gstreamer guide on download center.

Hello Wayne,

Thank you for your message,

I didn’t solve the problem yet, is Gstreamer or openCV or other problem…

Anyway, one thing is sure, the camera is working properly with the very simple code :

gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=640, height=480, framerate=30/1, format=NV12' ! nvvidconv flip-method=2 ! nvegltransform ! nveglglessink -e

I will update you on Gstreamer

Thanks

Then,

could you try to use very simple case on opencv pipeline to see if it is a problem on opencv? Maybe your opencv does not support gstreamer at all.

Simple pipeline is like:

videotestsrc ! appsink

I have the same problems…just mark and waiting for some helps

iam facing the same issue

Could you guys try #4? I cannot help if you don’t share your case.

I have the similar problem.

I tried #4 using OpenCV, then the color pattern can be seen.
I also tried #3 on terminal, it works well.

but on the following pipeline be run using OpenCV, I get the following error.

[pipeline]

nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=640, height=480, framerate=30/1, format=NV12' ! nvvidconv flip-method=2 ! nvegltransform ! nveglglessink -e

[error message]

GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 14:06:16:191: gst_element_make_from_uri: assertion 'gst_uri_is_valid (uri)' failed
GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 14:06:16:197: gst_element_get_state: assertion 'GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

[OpenCV build info]

General configuration for OpenCV 3.4.6 =====================================
  Version control:               unknown

  Extra modules:
    Location (extra):            /home/src/opencv_contrib-3.4.6/modules
    Version control (extra):     unknown

  Platform:
    Timestamp:                   2019-09-10T08:33:11Z
    Host:                        Linux 4.9.140-tegra aarch64
    CMake:                       3.10.2
    CMake generator:             Unix Makefiles
    CMake build tool:            /usr/bin/make
    Configuration:               RELEASE

  CPU/HW features:
    Baseline:                    NEON FP16
      required:                  NEON
      disabled:                  VFPV3

  C/C++:
    Built as dynamic libs?:      YES
    C++11:                       YES
    C++ Compiler:                /usr/bin/c++  (ver 7.4.0)
    C++ flags (Release):         -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG  -DNDEBUG
    C++ flags (Debug):           -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -g  -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
    C Compiler:                  /usr/bin/cc
    C flags (Release):           -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG  -DNDEBUG
    C flags (Debug):             -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -Wno-strict-overflow -fdiagnostics-show-option -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections    -fvisibility=hidden -g  -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
    Linker flags (Release):      -Wl,--gc-sections  
    Linker flags (Debug):        -Wl,--gc-sections  
    ccache:                      NO
    Precompiled headers:         YES
    Extra dependencies:          m pthread /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGL.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so cudart_static -lpthread dl rt nppc nppial nppicc nppicom nppidei nppif nppig nppim nppist nppisu nppitc npps cublas cufft -L/usr/local/cuda-10.0/lib64 -L/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu
    3rdparty dependencies:

  OpenCV modules:
    To be built:                 aruco bgsegm bioinspired calib3d ccalib core cudaarithm cudabgsegm cudacodec cudafeatures2d cudafilters cudaimgproc cudalegacy cudaobjdetect cudaoptflow cudastereo cudawarping cudev cvv datasets dnn dnn_objdetect dpm face features2d flann fuzzy hfs highgui img_hash imgcodecs imgproc line_descriptor ml objdetect optflow phase_unwrapping photo plot python2 python3 reg rgbd saliency shape stereo stitching structured_light superres surface_matching text tracking video videoio videostab xfeatures2d ximgproc xobjdetect xphoto
    Disabled:                    world
    Disabled by dependency:      -
    Unavailable:                 cnn_3dobj freetype hdf java js matlab ovis sfm ts viz
    Applications:                apps
    Documentation:               NO
    Non-free algorithms:         YES

  GUI: 
    QT:                          YES (ver 5.9.5)
      QT OpenGL support:         YES (Qt5::OpenGL 5.9.5)
    GTK+:                        NO
    OpenGL support:              YES (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGL.so /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so)
    VTK support:                 NO

  Media I/O: 
    ZLib:                        /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so (ver 1.2.11)
    JPEG:                        libjpeg-turbo (ver 2.0.2-62)
    WEBP:                        build (ver encoder: 0x020e)
    PNG:                         build (ver 1.6.36)
    TIFF:                        build (ver 42 - 4.0.10)
    JPEG 2000:                   build (ver 1.900.1)
    OpenEXR:                     build (ver 1.7.1)
    HDR:                         YES
    SUNRASTER:                   YES
    PXM:                         YES

  Video I/O:
    DC1394:                      NO
    FFMPEG:                      NO
      avcodec:                   NO
      avformat:                  NO
      avutil:                    NO
      swscale:                   NO
      avresample:                NO
    GStreamer:                   
      base:                      YES (ver 1.14.5)
      video:                     YES (ver 1.14.5)
      app:                       YES (ver 1.14.5)
      riff:                      YES (ver 1.14.5)
      pbutils:                   YES (ver 1.14.5)
    libv4l/libv4l2:              NO
    v4l/v4l2:                    linux/videodev2.h

  Parallel framework:            pthreads

  Trace:                         YES (built-in)

  Other third-party libraries:
    Lapack:                      NO
    Eigen:                       YES (ver 3.3.4)
    Custom HAL:                  YES (carotene (ver 0.0.1))
    Protobuf:                    build (3.5.1)

  NVIDIA CUDA:                   YES (ver 10.0, CUFFT CUBLAS FAST_MATH)
    NVIDIA GPU arch:             62
    NVIDIA PTX archs:

  OpenCL:                        YES (no extra features)
    Include path:                /home/src/opencv-3.4.6/3rdparty/include/opencl/1.2
    Link libraries:              Dynamic load

  Python 2:
    Interpreter:                 /usr/bin/python2.7 (ver 2.7.15)
    Libraries:                   /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so (ver 2.7.15+)
    numpy:                       /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.13.3)
    install path:                lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cv2/python-2.7

  Python 3:
    Interpreter:                 /usr/bin/python3 (ver 3.6.8)
    Libraries:                   /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so (ver 3.6.8)
    numpy:                       /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.13.3)
    install path:                lib/python3.6/dist-packages/cv2/python-3.6

  Python (for build):            /usr/bin/python2.7

  Java:                          
    ant:                         NO
    JNI:                         NO
    Java wrappers:               NO
    Java tests:                  NO

  Install to:                    /usr
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

AFAIK, OpenCV does not support such use of gstreamer pipeline.

Please refer to

The only pipeline gstreamer can support is something like appsrc and appsink.

Thank you for the information.
Following pipeline worked using OpenCV!

[pipeline]

nvarguscamerasrc ! video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080,format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1 ! nvvidconv flip-method=2 ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=(string)BGR ! appsink

Thanks
It worked