video does not work

[ijon]

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OS with Python 2.7.3
I can fly the drone and this works great.

Sadly psycon is no longer maintained and a dead project. And psycon does not work with Python 2.7, only with Python 2.6

Is there any possibility that this might be fixed in the future? Is there any workaround/fix/solution to this?

[Ricardo Band]

Same here with Archlinux and Debian. Someone has to replace the psyco code with something that is maintained and that works with current versions of Python (2.7, 3.3).

Maybe gstreamer?

[Bastian Venthur]

Pypy should be the proper replacement for psyco, but I haven't tested yet if it works with all libraries required for python-ardrone. Running a Python application with pypy is simply a matter of starting it with pypy instead of python:

pypy myapp.py

But I fear pygame is not compatible, so one would have to find an alternative to display the video output.

[Sander Idelson]

I am using opencv to grab the video and it seems to work just fine. Take a look at my project (https://github.com/Sanderi44/AR-Drone-Fire-Detection) to see how I am doing it. I haven't changed anything in this library, but I would suggest using this simple method for image processing with the AR Drone 2

[Richard]

Also broken for me, but I got it working with opencv:

import cv2
cam = cv2.VideoCapture('tcp://192.168.1.1:5555')
running = True
while running:
    # get current frame of video
    running, frame = cam.read()
    if running:
        cv2.imshow('frame', frame)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == 27: 
            # escape key pressed
            running = False
    else:
        # error reading frame
        print 'error reading video feed'
cam.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

[Fabio D'Elia]

This still works. One has to have openCv installed/built with ffmpeg (e.g. brew install opencv --with-ffmpeg)