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Peoples · 02-25-2005, 11:56 PM

when i'm done the majority of the install, i had plans to do the same thing of being able to press a button that will start a webcam record of the crazy **** going on in front of me, like cop cars have....guess its not original....but it would be pretty cool. take some insane traffic shots.....or show the scary *** weather i'm driving through...etc

tj!2k4 · 02-26-2005, 12:38 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Peoples

when i'm done the majority of the install, i had plans to do the same thing of being able to press a button that will start a webcam record of the crazy **** going on in front of me, like cop cars have....guess its not original....but it would be pretty cool. take some insane traffic shots.....or show the scary *** weather i'm driving through...etc

What I'd like is to have the cameras running all the time in the background, with the ability to bring to foreground, and have the ability to save the past X minutes of video to disk.

Peoples · 02-26-2005, 12:42 AM

that would be cool....if i could figure out how to write that kinda software.....that much more of a software trick. because if you doing raw capture, i guess that would be fine...but 10 minutes would fill up many gigs in raw format to compress it to mpeg or divx realtime would mean choppy video

kingtut · 02-26-2005, 01:48 AM

No gigs of HD space required, just send the capture -mealtime- to virtualDub and will will get compressed output. It was done before, just search using "virtualdub" as your key. It was actually explained in detail using more than one webcam, I think the guy had 4 of them, each sends the its file to a separate folder. Neat!

tj!2k4 · 02-26-2005, 11:21 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by kingtut

No gigs of HD space required, just send the capture -mealtime- to virtualDub and will will get compressed output. It was done before, just search using "virtualdub" as your key. It was actually explained in detail using more than one webcam, I think the guy had 4 of them, each sends the its file to a separate folder. Neat!

cool, thanks for the heads-up

kasemodz · 02-26-2005, 11:52 AM

has anyone thought of an auto navigation integration to car pc? you know those calfornia highways that have magnetic stuff on the road so the car drives itself. Well here is my idea.. dunno if it works but still in development stages. Ok the auto driving thing will consist of many parts:
1. There will be 1 camera in the front, back, and 2 on each side.
2. On roads that have lane markings, program the cameras to look for white and yellow strips and dividers on both sides. The 2 cameras on each side will take care of that. The front and back camera will simply monitor cars in fornt and back.
3. On the road that has no markings what so ever, it will take the distance of the road using the front camera and divide it in half. Then the car will tend to drive on the corner of the road. Basically the side cameras will look for change in color (black/dark gray to white, green etc). That part is hard but another thing a driver could do is that the driver could steer and position the car so that its in the right lane. Then the cameras will determine the distance from each side and keep that same distance throughout the road.
3. Safety- if a car is coming from the other side, then it will determine its distance from the car and try to keep as far away as possible. Also the driver can manually drive the car at any point of time.
I've figured that the best way to do this is first the driver will start driving; then he will position the car in a way that doesnt interfere with other cars in all directions. Then the driver will press a button and the cameras will take over. Basically they will meausre distance on all sides and try their best to keep that distance throuhgout. In the meantime the cameras will also look for cars in front, back ,and sides and look for any change in speed in front of them and try to keep the same distance throughtout. Please write any further suggestions or problems I may have. Remember I haven't started programming, just deisgning it.

sdashiki · 02-26-2005, 12:04 PM

This is just a tidbit of all the crazy ideas I wanna put into my carputer (nonexistent right now till i pay off the car and then spend the usual car payments on carputer parts, prolly 1 year or so from now, plenty of time for new front ends and extras)...

camera with joystick control for digital pictures at will (location could be top of car?)

ummm thats all.........

Peoples · 02-26-2005, 12:25 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by sdashiki

for digital pictures at will (location could be top of car?)

ummm thats all.........

that would be pretty cool, reminds me of those remote control spotlights on the top of boats. I have on picked it up for about $100.....clearance. Guess you could just put the camera in where the light bulb goes (water proof).....or mount it along with the camera for night shots.
linky http://www.boatersworld.com/webapp/w...88&bct=c257845

0l33l · 02-26-2005, 08:47 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kasemodz

has anyone thought of an auto navigation integration to car pc? you know those calfornia highways that have magnetic stuff on the road so the car drives itself. Well here is my idea.. dunno if it works but still in development stages. Ok the auto driving thing will consist of many parts:
1. There will be 1 camera in the front, back, and 2 on each side.
2. On roads that have lane markings, program the cameras to look for white and yellow strips and dividers on both sides. The 2 cameras on each side will take care of that. The front and back camera will simply monitor cars in fornt and back.
3. On the road that has no markings what so ever, it will take the distance of the road using the front camera and divide it in half. Then the car will tend to drive on the corner of the road. Basically the side cameras will look for change in color (black/dark gray to white, green etc). That part is hard but another thing a driver could do is that the driver could steer and position the car so that its in the right lane. Then the cameras will determine the distance from each side and keep that same distance throughout the road.
3. Safety- if a car is coming from the other side, then it will determine its distance from the car and try to keep as far away as possible. Also the driver can manually drive the car at any point of time.
I've figured that the best way to do this is first the driver will start driving; then he will position the car in a way that doesnt interfere with other cars in all directions. Then the driver will press a button and the cameras will take over. Basically they will meausre distance on all sides and try their best to keep that distance throuhgout. In the meantime the cameras will also look for cars in front, back ,and sides and look for any change in speed in front of them and try to keep the same distance throughtout. Please write any further suggestions or problems I may have. Remember I haven't started programming, just deisgning it.

Sounds like a technology toyota has. The car can steer to keep it in a lane.

kingtut · 02-27-2005, 01:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Peoples

that would be pretty cool, reminds me of those remote control spotlights on the top of boats. I have on picked it up for about $100.....clearance. Guess you could just put the camera in where the light bulb goes (water proof).....or mount it along with the camera for night shots.
linky http://www.boatersworld.com/webapp/w...88&bct=c257845

That is $119 for the light and wired remote, go here http://www.x10.com/products/vk74a_sp_3n_ps350.html for 3 units (each controles up/down left/right) for $99!

kasemodz · 02-27-2005, 09:27 AM

01331 wouldn't it be sweet if i could incporate it to ur navivoice system? that would be awesome. Ill prob start programming this summer.

0l33l · 02-27-2005, 01:31 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kasemodz

01331 wouldn't it be sweet if i could incporate it to ur navivoice system? that would be awesome. Ill prob start programming this summer.

Sure you can. NaviVoice can launch programs with command line parameters. So make your program be one instance only and accept parameters, and your program would be supported

sdashiki · 02-28-2005, 12:36 PM

I think I like the idea of a either a forward facing camera (in the grill or where go lites go) or a camera on top of the car that by ODBII knows your cars speed. And based off of say 24fps, you can make a program that based on your speed takes more pics per min for slow and less for fast. Then when you shut the car off it saves it as a group of pictures in a folder with the date and time. You can use alot of NLE programs (video editing) to stitch those together into a short clip.

Good for "animated" movies of long trips, accidents etc.

Could even become automated and part of the GUI where u can scroll thru "trips" and play/delete etc them.

The camera would be the camera i would use for various driving pics (neet billboards, cars, people) and you can set the front end to recognize that you can only have it in "camera mode" or "video frame mode" and you can turn it on/off at will.

sounds neet...

Chairboy · 02-28-2005, 12:46 PM

Sdashiki, that's exactly what I want. Instead of OBDII, it'd probably be better to use GPS. Since GPS is a passive protocol, you can use a serial splitter to send the GPS data out to multiple programs, including the camera one. With OBDII, you'd have a couple other obstacles, including that only one program could use the OBDII at a time and that it would only work with specific interfaces, as each OBDII interface speaks a different language.

lostreception · 02-28-2005, 01:31 PM

ok heres my idea integrated radar and OBD so possibly thru a program if radar is detected music lowers and announcement comes on "Radar Detected" (for those drives where ur music is very loud etc)

that action automatically triggers recording of the speedo. so you get pulled over lets say, officer says "hey you were going 70 back there" u pull up your file when he goes back to his car and review the tape with rearview cam video included.

you then ask the officer (who in court will have to prove you were speeding )
have a mic in the front to record audio.
IF in court he contradicts himself saying he said something he didnt etc you can challenge his accuracy in the matter. this sytem would also prove useful if he issues a ticket for 76 in a 55 vs the actual 70 in a 55 ...
21 over the limit vs 15 makes a diference in ticket price and the cost of your insurance.double whammey
THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE It requires being ballsy also make sure u have a sign on the window etc that say you may be recorded as well as the rest of your vehicle to specs (in some states no vis or video unless car is in park)
just a thought lot of integration but they tape us we should tape them as well