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acts
[Drivers]

ACTS is a fast color segmentation system written by Paul Rybski and sold by ActivMedia. After training, ACTS finds colored blobs in a single camera image. Player's acts driver starts and controls ACTS, which must already be installed and trained.

The acts driver supports ACTS versions 1.0, 1.2, and 2.0.

PXC200 framegrabbers, when accessed through the bttv module, may cause the machine to hang. A workaround is to first read a frame from a framegrabber channel on which there is no video signal, and then start reading from the right channel. (This problem is unrelated to Player's acts driver).

Compile-time dependencies
  • none

Provides

Requires
  • none

Configuration requests
  • none

Configuration file options
In the list below, a default value of (none) indicates that the associated option will not be passed to ACTS. As a result, ACTS's own internal default for that parameter will be used. Consult the ACTS manual to determine what those defaults are.

  • path (string)
    • Default: ""
    • Path to the ACTS executable (leave empty to search the user's PATH for acts).
  • configfile (string)
    • Default: "/usr/local/acts/actsconfig"
    • Path to the ACTS configuration file to be used.
  • version (string)
    • Default: "2.0"
    • The version of ACTS in use (should be "1.0", "1.2", or "2.0")
  • width (integer)
    • Default: 160
    • Width of the camera image (in pixels)
  • height (integer)
    • Default: 120
    • Height of the camera image (in pixels)
  • pixels (integer)
    • Default: (none)
    • Minimum area required to call a blob a blob (in pixels)
  • port (integer)
    • Default: 5001
    • TCP port by which Player should connect to ACTS.
  • fps (integer)
    • Default: (none)
    • Frame per second of the camera.
  • drivertype (string)
    • Default: (none)
    • Type of framegrabber driver in use (e.g., "bttv", "bt848", "matrox").
  • invert (integer)
    • Default: (none)
    • Is the camera inverted?
  • devicepath (string)
    • Default: (none)
    • Path to the device file for the framegrabber (e.g., "/dev/fg0")
  • channel (integer)
    • Default: (none)
    • Which channel to select on the framegrabber.
  • norm (string)
    • Default: (none)
    • Something to do with normalization
  • pxc200 (integer)
    • Default: (none)
    • Is the framegrabber a PXC200?
  • brightness (float)
    • Default: (none)
    • Brightness level
  • contrast (float)
    • Default: (none)
    • Contrast level

Example
driver ( name "acts" provides ["blobfinder:0"] configfile "/tmp/myactsconfig" )

Authors
Brian Gerkey


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