Notes on Software Configuration

Digital 8mm Video Camera runs "Retro Cam" program. This program supports capturing and recording video from /dev/video*.

For Raspberry Pi CM4 main board, it seems that the libavcodec comes with ppa would have the support for h264_v4l2m2m hardware encoder. If not, you could still use libx264 as the software encoder. If you are using a 32 bit OS, then h264_omx encoder might be available.

When starting Retro Cam for the first time, you need to set hardware port and address on the camera settings page. For the CM4 main board on the Digital 8mm Video Camera, you need to set the port to 0 and address to 59. If you are using raspberry pi 5 as the main board, depending on the camera port you have connected, the port number is either 6 (CSI-0) or 4 (CSI-2). When exiting the program, camera status as well as all the settings are saved.

In Retro Cam program, clicking the top right arrow button to go to full screen. In the bottom center of the camera interface, press the upwards arrow to maximize the camera previewing area to the entire window (clicking it again to restore). This is useful when you have a small screen.

If for whatever reason you have different i2c address for the camera/io-expander/adc board to what described below, you need to re-compile Retro Cam using the values you have on your devices.

Utility Programs

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