Well. I'm actually trying. So. Because the ar drone 2.0 is not compatible with ARC , I decided to try to do it myself. Right now, the Movement Panel for the ar drone 1.0 works with my 2.0, but I cant see the camera.
So here's what I've come up with:
1.Mounting ez-b V4 with camera on ar drone(somewhat straight forward)
Or
2.Find a way to connect to the camera via a different program and relay it to ARC either via http or by using a program that will make the camera feed a system device.(anyone who can find this kind of program I will give all credit to)
Anyone who has comments is welcome to comment. If you have ideas or you already have a ar drone 2.0 with the camera working in ARC somehow PLEASE TELL US HOW!
Thank you for any comments that appear.
Now lets get those Ar drone 2.0's flying!
If you look there's several codecs that it does use. What does that ffplay thing I downloaded do?
Everything you need to know, and more is on this topic from ARDrone.org
I'm sure there is much more info out there, the ARDrone.org post was one of the first that popped up on google, I spent all of 2 minutes looking. Do some digging, it's a popular item to hack.
Or, use the SDK, write an app to grab the feed and convert it to a jpeg stream. Use the path for the jpeg stream in ARC's camera control and voila.
Also, to view in VLC have a read of this topic
The while ARDrone.org site is full of useful info.
Going to test a different media software to see if it's just VLC that's causing the lag and jumps.
The select camera control works. Just tested with VLC.
My internet has got so bad posting on the forum is the most I can do;(737bytes/per second) so I cannot download the other media player to test if the lag is only in VLC. One idea to get video into ARC is VLC can let you save the stream to file. Why not have ARC open that file? Yes it will be laggy but its an idea.
I've never really been happy with VLC Player. It plays a lot of formats but its always seems lag and skip for me. And that's over the years on various computers.
I can't wait to see your progress.
@antron , what player do you use then?
Honestly I usually just use Windows Media player or stream to my Blu Ray player or Xbox or whatever the default player is on the device I'm using. I rarely watch stuff on my computers themselves and only sometimes on my tablet or phone. I haven't found a need for anything advanced like streaming from a camera yet. That's kind of why I find this topic interesting. That or I'm completely misunderstanding the thread.
I don't have any advise to offer on the topic I just know VLC player has always ran kinda clunky for me. But it's small and supports a ton of formats. There were a series of 3D rendered Transformers done in .flv format back about 9-10 years ago and I discovered VLC then to view those. It was never really important enough to me to find a better option so I've just kind of stuck with it as my back up.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer