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Hey Tim,<br>
<br>
This is a really amazing effort. Congratulations to yourself, your
team and everybody else who worked on this project. I look forward
to seeing it in use at some of Linux Australia's events!<br>
<br>
Thank you for continuing to enable our freedoms and for all you do
within our community.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Josh<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/09/15 02:39, Tim Ansell wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,
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<div>If you've been to a Linux Australia event, you may know
that <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4i-XJDGCM">I have
too many projects</a>! Recently there has been a major
milestone for one of them, the TimVideos' <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://HDMI2USB.tv">HDMI2USB.tv</a>
project has launched our first piece of open hardware, the
Numato Opsis board.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div>The Numato Opsis is a powerful new FPGA-based open source
video platform for videographers and visual artists. The
Opsis board was designed to give the user complete control
over high-speed video, enabling everything from real-time
conference capturing solutions, to experimental visual art
and even general FPGA-based video research. I've included
more information at the end of this email.</div>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div>The board is now crowdfunding on CrowdSupply.com at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/numato-lab/opsis"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/numato-lab/opsis">https://www.crowdsupply.com/numato-lab/opsis</a></a> and
while we have already reached 100% of our goal, we want to
get the board into the hands of as many people as possible,
because the more people using FOSS hardware, the better it
gets! (In a semi related note, CrowdSupply.com was recently <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/free-software-foundation-endorses-crowd-supply-for-respecting-users-software-freedom">endorsed
by Richard Stallman and the FSF</a> too.) If you could
share the campaign with anyone you think who might be
interested that would be extremely helpful!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
<div>The HDMI2USB.tv firmware, which will also run on the Opsis
board, was recently used to record a user group in Chicago US.
You can see a very happy Carl in this photo -> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://forum.digilentinc.com/gallery/image/63-carl-has-success/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://forum.digilentinc.com/gallery/image/63-carl-has-success/">https://forum.digilentinc.com/gallery/image/63-carl-has-success/</a></a>
- It's been a long road to getting to this stage and I'd like
to thank all the support for Linux Australia and the LA
community. <b>We couldn't have done it without you all!</b></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>For those who don't know me or what I'm trying to do, here
is some more background information;</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">A long while back I got
involved with doing recording and streaming conferences
like LCA and got the idea that anyone, both conference and
user group, should be able to record their proceedings
without needing to know anything about A/V. </div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">You can watch a talk that I
gave at LCA2012 about my first attempt to do this on
YouTube at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/rCoCRmcrPlM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/rCoCRmcrPlM</a> .
Shortly after the talk I came to the conclusion that the
software and hardware available at the time was not up to
the task - they just didn't have the programmatic APIs and
debugging information available to really build a fool
proof system. This spawned the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://code.TimVideos.us">TimVideos.us</a> project
which has been plugging away trying to fix the problem <span
style="font-size:12.8px">(you can see a later talk I
gave at</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> LCA2014
at </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/jtuzEQaG0Vc" target="_blank"
style="font-size:12.8px">https://youtu.be/jtuzEQaG0Vc</a><span
style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><span
style="font-size:12.8px">. You may have seen us running
around at LCA2015 earlier this year which we helped
stream and record.</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">One of the big tasks of the
project has been trying to make an open hardware capture
platform which has been designed with being debuggable in
mind. Our attempt at his is called the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://HDMI2USB.tv">HDMI2USB.tv</a>
project and Joel Stanley gave a talk about the hardware at
LCA2015 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/O4D-6IPX308" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/O4D-6IPX308</a> . <span
style="font-size:12.8px">At that time we where stilling
using a closed prototyping platform called the Digilent
Atlys but where in the process of developing our second
attempt at doing an open hardware board.</span></div>
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<div>Thank you once again!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Tim 'mithro' Ansell</div>
<div><br>
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<h1 style="font-size:36px;margin:20px 0px
10px;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:inherit">Numato
Opsis: FPGA-based open video platform</h1>
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<h2
style="font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:30px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">An
open platform for recording, routing, and manipulating
HDMI and DisplayPort video signals.</h2>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The
Numato Opsis is a powerful new FPGA-based open source
video platform for videographers and visual artists. The
Opsis board was designed to give the user complete
control over high-speed video, enabling everything from
real-time conference capturing solutions, to
experimental visual art and even general FPGA-based
video research.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" alt=""
src="https://www.crowdsupply.com/img/1e3d/io-ports_png_project-body.jpg"
style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: 0px;" height="444" width="444"></p>
<ul
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<li><strong>A</strong>: HDMI Out 1</li>
<li><strong>B</strong>: HDMI Out 2</li>
<li><strong>C</strong>: HDMI In 1</li>
<li><strong>D</strong>: HDMI In 2</li>
<li><strong>E</strong>: DisplayPort Out</li>
<li><strong>F</strong>: DisplayPort In</li>
<li><strong>G</strong>: USB 2.0 Device / JTAG Programmer
/ UART Adapter</li>
<li><strong>H</strong>: Expansion Port (TOFE, not
PCI-Express compatible)</li>
<li><strong>I</strong>: microSD (underside of board)</li>
<li><strong>J</strong>: USB 2.0 OTG</li>
<li><strong>K</strong>: Gigabit Ethernet</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">As
a collaboration between the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://code.timvideos.us/"
style="color:rgb(0,178,173);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">TimVideos.us</a> live
event streaming project and FPGA development board
manufacturer Numato Lab, the Opsis is the ideal device
for the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hdmi2usb.tv/"
style="color:rgb(0,178,173);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">HDMI2USB.tv</a> video
capturing firmware, which allows for “fool-proof” video
recording from any computer. Enabling direct acquisition
of video streams in realtime to a computer through the
USB 2.0 interface or sent over the network through the
Gigabit Ethernet interface, the Opsis is a vital
component within the complete conference recording
solution envisioned and pioneered by the TimVideos.us
project.</p>
<h3
style="font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Example
Applications</h3>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The
Opsis is flexible and powerful enough to have a large
number of use cases, many of which we probably haven’t
considered. That said, we had certain use cases in mind
when we designed the system.</p>
<h4
style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Running
HDMI2USB Firmware</h4>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The
Opsis was designed to run the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hdmi2usb.tv/"
style="color:rgb(0,178,173);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">HDMI2USB</a> firmware
developed by the TimVideos.us project. This firmware
makes it easy to build automated conference/event
recording systems.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The
diagram below shows one such simple scenario. The HDMI
output from the laptop is fed into the Opsis, which
forwards it to an external monitor and simultaneously
allows another computer to capture the output via the
USB 2.0 interface. The HDMI2USB.tv firmware emulates a
standard UVC webcam, allowing any video software, such
as Skype, Google Hangouts, or WebRTC, to then send it to
an online audience.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px
10px;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" alt=""
src="https://www.crowdsupply.com/img/89d4/simple-setup_png_project-body.jpg"
style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: 0px;" height="321" width="444"><br>
</p>
<center
style="text-align:left;line-height:22.8571px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><em>A
simple setup</em></center>
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