Trying to understand jetson.utils.gstCamera

DaneLLL · September 8, 2020, 5:28am

Hi,
We suggest check the source code gstCamera.pp in

dusty-nv/jetson-utils/blob/cae2730a09edd955631fcbdfc8c4c38556a93600/camera/gstCamera.cpp

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Around line #144, you can see it is to launch a gstreamer pipeline. For customization, you can leverage gstreamer plugins. Please check gstreamer user guide. For doing crpping/scaling/format conversion, you can use nvvidconv plugin.

If your usecase is to run deep learning inference, suggest you check DeepStream SDK.

After the installation, you can see samples in

/opt/nvidia/deepstream/deepstream-5.0/

Please take a look and give it a try.