robotpy-cscore 2017.0.0a1

RobotPy bindings for cscore image processing library

robotpy-cscore

These are python bindings for the cscore library, which is a high performance library used in the FIRST Robotics competition to serve video to/from robots. However, the core library is suitable for use in other applications, and is comparable to something like mjpg-streamer.

This library has only been tested with Python 3, and will most likely not work with Python 2.7. We do not intend to support using Python 2.7.

Note

This is currently a preview release, a stable release with precompiled binaries and the like will be available at the end of January. Please try this out, file bugs, and make pull requests!

RoboRIO usage

TODO

Compilation

Currently, this isn’t setup to work on Windows. It might work on Windows though, I haven’t tried it yet.

Important: You MUST compile OpenCV with shared libraries (the default), if your python cv2 is statically linked this will most likely not work with it (if you do get such a setup working , please let me know!).

Requirements

• Python 3.x

• OpenCV 3.x

• NumPy

• pybind11

You should be able to install numpy and pybind11 via pip:

pip3 install numpy pybind11

You cannot use opencv-python at this time (see notes below), you will need to compile it from source yourself.

Installation

Once you get OpenCV and NumPy installed, then you should be able to do a:

pip3 install .

Notes

Long term, I’d like to get this working with opencv-python. However, that’s going to take a bit of work. To track the primary problem related to this, see https://github.com/skvark/opencv-python/issues/22

Author

Dustin Spicuzza ([e-mail])