v4l2-ctl single frame capture produces image with green ending

Question

I have a HDMI capture card and I'm using raspbian.

I want to get one single frame with v4l2-ctl command, then convert it to something common:

Get a frame:

# v4l2-ctl --device /dev/video0 --stream-mmap --stream-to=frame.raw --stream-count=1

Convert it:

# convert -size 1280x720 -depth 16 uyvy:frame.raw frame.png

1280x720 is the resolution what v4l2-ctl --query-dv-timings reports as active.

The problem is that I can not get a clean capture, it always has a green ending at the bottom (sometimes smaller, sometimes larger!):

How can I get the whole picture captured with v4l2-ctl? Maybe the conversion is wrong (I get that from http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/v4l2).

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try steaming with jpg, below code i have tried .

v4l2-ctl --device /dev/video0 --set-fmt-video=width=1280,height=720,pixelformat=MJPEG --stream-mmap --stream-to=frame.jpg --stream-count=1

Answer 2

Raw image data is rarely standardized. Are you certain that uyvy with 16 bit depth is the correct mapping? Solid green at the bottom half of the image certainly appears to be misinterpretation of raw data, in particular planar data. If your goal is to just get a standard image out of the camera, try using one of the camera's natively supported formats:

$ v4l2-ctl --device /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
...
    [0]: 'MJPG' (Motion-JPEG, compressed)
        Size: Discrete 1920x1080
            Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
        Size: Discrete 3840x2160
            Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
        Size: Discrete 1280x720
            Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps)
...
    [1]: 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
        Size: Discrete 1920x1080
            Interval: Discrete 0.500s (2.000 fps)
        Size: Discrete 3840x2160
            Interval: Discrete 1.000s (1.000 fps)
        Size: Discrete 1280x720
            Interval: Discrete 0.133s (7.500 fps)
            Interval: Discrete 0.200s (5.000 fps)
            Interval: Discrete 0.500s (2.000 fps)
...

Then:

$ v4l2-ctl \
  --device /dev/video0 \
  --set-fmt-video=width=3840,height=2160,pixelformat=MJPG \
  --stream-mmap --stream-to=frame.jpg --stream-count=1