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HD video for UAV's

Posted by Yusuf Pirgali on May 15, 2013 at 6:53am

3689522281?profile=originalI keep asking myself why this cannot be done, and so far i have not found an answer i can believe. So i bought a commercial HD Video/Audio sender for home use and plugged in my gopro as a video source, and my flat screen TV as the player, and i connected up these devices and viola..! it worked. So my next thought what is the problem with making this work in a UAV , it is using 5.8Ghz it is cheap to buy, just need to hack it so the antenna is less directional, and we can then have HD in our goggles, or on our screen.

This would be far more preferable to me for a first time FPV flyer as the picture is so poor at 480x240 pixels, you can hardly see if your moving or not.

What do you all think? i know a more elegant solution would be nicer but for now it would work.

sample of what i meant : http://www.maplin.co.uk/wireless-hdmi-video-sender-kit-503801

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  • Tommy Larsen May 20, 2013 at 7:19am

    @Andy: You don't need their client. Just for device setup. They support VLC and others as well.

  • Emin Bu May 18, 2013 at 2:49am

    my friends using this for ucompressed video stream... 

    Ultralight, uncompressed, realtime, wireless.
    Full 1920x1080 10 bit 4:2:2 HD.
    Up to 320 feet line of sight and up to 200 feet through walls. 
    Less than 2 MS Latency.

    http://www.paralinx.net/store/arrow-plus-11-package

    http://www.paralinx.net/faq/

    it is not cheap(depends for what are u using it for) but is best solution at the moment...

  • Andy May 17, 2013 at 7:16pm

    Though SD, looking at the specs of that H.264 video server Tommy posted, it seems like they require the use of their client for viewing.  I would like to use VLC instead and wonder if that would be possible with that solution.  Any thoughts on this?

  • Andy May 17, 2013 at 5:26am

    Okay Tommy; I will do the same.  Thanks.

  • Tommy Larsen May 17, 2013 at 5:17am

    @Andy: I'm not ordering from that link. I sent an email to the supplier and got a sample device price 76USD.

    She also sent me tha datasheet/manual in pdf format.

  • Andy May 17, 2013 at 5:07am

    @Tommy

    That looks interesting.  If you don't mind, are you ordering from that link and what are they charging you?  Thanks.

  • Tommy Larsen May 17, 2013 at 4:13am

    I have already ordered this device: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/878661072/H_264_1CH_WIFI_IP_Video...

    I will remove the case because of weight.

  • Andy May 17, 2013 at 12:07am

    Thanks Charles.  Getting there but not as compact as I would like (the form factor you showed earlier from Zowietek is perfect).  Someone pointed out Cavium earlier and I am contacting them to see what is possible.  I will post any feedback received.

  • Andy May 16, 2013 at 11:47pm

    Yeah; unfortunately not the portable solution I need.  I did send a message to see if they have something in the pipeline.  Thanks for the feedback.

  • Andy May 16, 2013 at 10:58pm

    @Charles:

    Nice pointer; are you aware of anything that size streaming over wifi?

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