Oh, nice. Found it, and there's a $38 dev board so this should be easy=20 to tinker with. Cheers, -Neil. On 3/8/2018 9:13 AM, Isaac M. Bavaresco wrote: > Neil, > > > An ARM Cortex-M7 like Atmel's ATSAME7, ATSAMS7 or ATSAMV7 should be enou= gh. > > They are 32-bit Cortex-M7 @ 300 MHz with 384 KiB SRAM, CIS (CMOS Image > Sensor) interface, HSMCI (High-Speed Multimedia Card Interface), > High-Speed USB and DMA. > > The CMOS Image Sensor can capture real-time video and the HSMCI > interface should be able to push the SD-Card on full bandwith. > > I don't know if the ADC is fast enough to capture analog video. > > > Cheers, > > Isaac > > > > Em 07/03/2018 23:22, Neil escreveu: >> I want to record video of at least 1.0MP to SSD (or other memory) for >> about 3-5 minutes. 15FPS is fine. But I really want to avoid SBCs >> because of the OS (and more specifically the boot time), so wondering >> what it would take to do this with a microcontroller. >> I'm looking at camera modules similar to this... >> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/600TVL-1-4-1-8mm-CMOS-FPV-170-Degree-Wid= e-Angle-Lens-Camera-PAL-NTSC-image/32570417705.html >> >> I believe (haven't yet found a clear answer) that these cameras do 24 >> bpp (Is this correct?), and if so I'd need 1 MP x 3 bytes x 60 secs x 5 >> mins =3D 900 MB to store raw data. >> That's no prob with an SD card, but I expect bandwidth will be an issue, >> so I'd need to compress it. This is where I draw a blank... what does >> it take to compress video? >> >> I'm clueless on video, so wondering if a microcontroller (say PIC32 or >> ARM) would be able to accept TTL NTSC video at this rate and compress >> it, and then store it. Or is there a specialized processor I can use to >> accept the NTSC video stream and store it to SD? >> Should I use some other protocol other than NTSC for this perhaps? >> >> Cheers, >> -Neil. >> --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .