Posted by Taylor Cox on September 5, 2010 at 11:37pm
These camera's are $299, full widescreen HD, 2 hours of battery life. They come with a waterproof casing and are very resistant to shock. Combined with a 16Gb SD card, you can shoot about 4 hours of video. My brother works in LA and he just bought a few of these for a documentary he is going on oyster farming. He has some pretty impressive vids of dredging for the oyster bags under water. I think this would be a perfect addition to arduCopter.
Whats very good about the Hero camera package is how well they have incorporated H.264 encoding.
The H.264 video codec uses up significantly less memory for a given picture quality than does MPEG2 - and like MPEG.2, the H.264 codec can be "set" at different levels of compression - all levels for equal memory take up offering a siginficantly better quality video picture than MPEG.2 does.
Bbut (theres always a but), the problem with H.264 is the computational time/power it requires to achieve this, compared to MPEG.2 - it is substantially more than a processor would use to encode & compress the same video using the MPEG.2 codec.
Hero have done superb job getting H/264 to work as well as they have in their products.
nice - good to know that this update was released - still bloggie used is about $65 - I will add a go pro in my wish list for christmas - I love the fact that can be used to take pics underwater doing scuba diving and so on :-)
He first made for the webbie but it also works for the bloggie
1st link with google translate and 2nd the original
If anyone wants more details I could ask him in portuguese but I'm almost sure that his english it's quite good. but I'm not aware of any posts that he did in english about this mod.
It's quite simple, I think that the unique thing that needs more attention it's that there's a small cable connecting one of the cables to ground the plug housing
Looks good but difficult to mount on quadcopters. Also you need to take out whole cover which is protecting the camera. We should have better on quads :)
That mount is great for airplanes and other devices where there are a lot flat mounting surfaces.
Kiitos Pauli (kiitos mean thank you in finnish), that sounds great. Well looks like it solves many issues then. Yes if having HD video feed to ground, normal video equipment does not have enough bandwidth to transmit it properly.
Any ideas if this same video feature works when it is on that automatic still picture mode eg. taking pictures every 2 seconds?
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The H.264 video codec uses up significantly less memory for a given picture quality than does MPEG2 - and like MPEG.2, the H.264 codec can be "set" at different levels of compression - all levels for equal memory take up offering a siginficantly better quality video picture than MPEG.2 does.
Bbut (theres always a but), the problem with H.264 is the computational time/power it requires to achieve this, compared to MPEG.2 - it is substantially more than a processor would use to encode & compress the same video using the MPEG.2 codec.
Hero have done superb job getting H/264 to work as well as they have in their products.
http://www.goprocamera.com/support/hdheroupdate.php
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&am...
http://fpvbrasil.com.br/profiles/blogs/sony-webbie-para-fpv
He first made for the webbie but it also works for the bloggie
1st link with google translate and 2nd the original
If anyone wants more details I could ask him in portuguese but I'm almost sure that his english it's quite good. but I'm not aware of any posts that he did in english about this mod.
It's quite simple, I think that the unique thing that needs more attention it's that there's a small cable connecting one of the cables to ground the plug housing
thingiverse has some mounts.... but not the camera....
http://www.thingiverse.com/search?cx=015525747728168968820%3Arqnsgx...
GoPro HD on William's Tri-Copter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehKZlgYV-c
Onboard video from the Tri-Copter with GoPro HD: http://www.vimeo.com/11782303
Video of my latest Quad-Copter with GoPro HD: http://www.vimeo.com/12925133
Best regards Tumba
That mount is great for airplanes and other devices where there are a lot flat mounting surfaces.
Any ideas if this same video feature works when it is on that automatic still picture mode eg. taking pictures every 2 seconds?
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