How do I acquire the video streaming in H264 format from AR Drone 2.0?

[Jorge_Lalana]

I like to acquire the video streaming from AR Drone 2.0 (H264 format) for processing in LabVIEW to do object inspection. Anybody could you help me?.

Actually I can visualize the video streaming with ffplay, but I need processing this video streaming or photo (frame) in LabVIEW and I don't know to do it....

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

    Jorge.

[Chon.Mech]

Hi Jorge,

Do you have the Vision Aquisition Software, or just standard labview with none of the extra bells and whisles? 

It cost $419 to add it to labview, but doing image stuff will be very hard without it. 

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/12892

[Jorge_Lalana]

Hi Over_Nyquest,

    Thank you for your answer. I will try it, I have installed this toolkit in my LabVIEW 2011 SP1, but I had problems when I tried to connect/communicate with the HD camera (installed in AR-DRONE 2.0) directly from MAX. It must be not very easy and now I am testing all posibilities.

     When it's working fine I will write how I do it

Best regards,

    Jorge.

[JD_war_eagle]

Hi Jorge,

I have just posted a BETA version of the toolkit which incorporates native LabVIEW 2.0 streaming.  Check it out and hopefully it will be of some help.

AR Drone Toolkit with native video in LabVIEW for AR Drone 2.0 BETA

[Jorge_Lalana]

Hi Jd_war_eagle,

     It's great!!!. Thank very much for your efforts, I will test your great development ASAP and I will send my feedback.

Best regards,

     Jorge.

[Bbaggio]

Hi JD_war_eagle,

how i do to download AR Drone Toolkit which incorporates a video streaming?

thanks!

[JD_war_eagle]

Hi Bbaggio,

You will need to have VI Package Manager installed, then you can download the VIP file attached on the link below and use it to install the toolkit.  The beta version has support for video streaming in the Drone 2.0.

AR Drone Toolkit with native video in LabVIEW for AR Drone 2.0 BETA

[Bbaggio]

I've already installed VI Package Manager, but when i search "AR Drone", appear the old toolkit, where there isn't support for video streaming.

[fra.bar]

Hi JD_war_eagle,

I've have the same problem of Bbaggio. How to solve it?

[JD_war_eagle]

Hi guys,

As I mentioned previously, the version of toolkit containing the 2.0 video streaming capabilities is not available directly through the VIPM Repo, but it must be downloaded from the BETA toolkit link above.

Once you download that VIP file, you will need to open it in VIPM and choose to install the local VIP file rather than selecting it from the Repo.  After installing the toolkit from the VIP, confirm that you have v0.1.0.36 of the toolkit installed in VIPM.  You should then be able to use the Initialize Video and Read Video Data VIs for the Drone 2.0 just as you would for the 1.0.

I am now realizing that I never updated the VI descriptions for the video VIs to indicate that they now support Drone 2.0, but if you open the VIs you should see Call Library Nodes which are calling into Decode20Video.dll.

Hope this helps.