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Re: Using USB Camera with SmartDashboard SFX

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Originally Posted by byteit101 View Post
USB cameras are not supported out of the box with SFX. Only MJPG streams are. USB cameras require the sfxcv plugin, which currently causes memory exploding issues with playback and requires some minor changes to sfx to support loading multiple external libraries (namely all of ffmpeg and opencv). I will try to get it working (though without playback) soon.
Is the camera stream being produced by the RIO not a MJPG stream?
Is there any documentation on the CameraServer available?
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