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Asked: 2026-06-13T23:27:55+00:00

I am trying to develop an application in which a Beaglebone platform captures video

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I am trying to develop an application in which a Beaglebone platform captures video images from a camera connected to it, and then send them (through an internet socket) to an Android application such the application shows the video images.

I have read that openCV may be a very good option to capture the images from a camera, but then I am not sure how the images can be sent through a socket.

On the other end, I think that the video images received by the Android application could be treated by simple images. With this in mind I think I can refresh the image every second or so.

I am not sure if I am in the right way for the implementation, so I really appreciate any suggestion and help you could provide.

Thanks in advance, Gus.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The folks at OpenROV have done something like you’ve said. Instead of using a custom Android app, which is certainly possible, they’ve simply used a web browser to display the images captured.

    https://github.com/OpenROV/openrov-software

    This application uses OpenCV to perform the capture and analysis, a Node.JS application to transmit the data over socket.io to the web browser and a web client to display the video. An architecture description on how this works is given here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnAYDxbDUo

    You can also look at running something like mjpg-streamer:

    http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=cpesp

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