Allied Vision V4L2 Viewer

Allied Vision V4L2 Viewer was designed for easy evaluation of Alvium CSI-2 cameras and NVIDIA Jetson boards. Additionally, you can use the viewer with any other CSI-2 camera or another board.

Compatibility

Allied Vision V4L2 Viewer v1.1.0 was tested with:

• NVIDIA Jetson Nano, AGX Xavier, Xavier NX, TX2, TX2 NX
• JetPack 4.6.1 (L4T 32.7.1)
• Allied Vision driver version 4.0.0, see https://github.com/alliedvision/linux_nvidia_jetson
• Alvium CSI-2 cameras with firmware version 6.0 or newer

Installation

Method A:

Use the binaries for Jetson provided in this release version.

Method B:

Use the sources on Jetson boards:

apt install qt5-default cmake
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Usage

List cameras

To view the camera list while the camera is open, click the camera icon.

Settings

Go to Settings to enable or disable Log to file.

All features

When you open All Features, all camera and driver features are shown.

Camera features are listed in the Alvium MIPI CSI-2 Cameras Direct Register Access Controls Reference, see:

https://www.alliedvision.com/en/support/technical-documentation/alvium-csi-2-documentation/

For NVIDIA's driver features, see NVIDIA's documentation.

Known issues

Known issues:

• Reverse X/Y in combination with a Bayer pixel format causes images with incorrect colors or an incorrect pixel format.
• Reverse X/Y cannot be set during image acquisition.
• Saving images during image acquisition is not always possible.