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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

You're reading from   Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black Unleash the power of the BeagleBone Black embedded platform with Yocto Project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289736
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black 2. What's BitBake All About? FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating the helloworld Recipe 4. Adding Multimedia to Your Board 5. Creating and Exploring Layers 6. Your First Console Game 7. Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System 8. BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point Index

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Having this working example in hand, we can now tweak it further for better results. To achieve this, we can experiment and explore the following areas:

  • To modify /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf to edit the uvcvideo module update, we should create a recipe.

  • To run this pipeline on board boot up, we can create a systemd service so that we don't have to manually run it. We should create the service in meta-yb-develop using a recipe.

  • We may use a vendor-provided decoder that was implemented on the DSP part of the board and leveraged full strength of the hardware. To achieve this, we can use gstreamer-ti from meta-ti. Consider this an exercise and play with it.

  • Using a combination of RTSP and web server on board using lighttpd or on a local network, we can enhance user experience. Project, on the client side, you don't have to run the GStreamer pipeline or VLC manually. You just go to a web address and view the output. There can be different approaches to achieve this. Whatever...

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