Raspberry Pi Remote Camera Proof of Concept Implementation

As discussed before, the Raspberry Pi has a hardware accelerated H264 encoder and decoder. This allows us to build a remote camera solution. Given that the camera module has not been released, I faked the camera input using an rolling frame buffer.

Implementation can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ac3nU-B4WQ

Implementation details:

• 720p @ 30fps 
• UDP transport

The end result is actually quite smooth. Clearly this example can be further extended into video conference application and such.