HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L2: Pixel format of incoming image is unsupported by OpenCV

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX1
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Board: Jetson TX1
Installed : OpenCV4Tegra (2.4.13)

I faced this issue while installing openpose and now with YOLO2.

Error I get :
HIGHGUI ERROR: V4L2: Pixel format of incoming image is unsupported by OpenCV
Couldn’t connect to webcam.
: Bad file descriptor

I noticed others faced it as well. But I couldn’t find any solutions to it.

Does this mean I need to remove OpenCV4Tegra and compile OpenCV afresh?
Is there a simpler solution?

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Hi ShaktiD,

You error seems a webcam issue but not sepcific to YOLO2. Could you tell how to reproduce this issue?

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Yes. It has something to do with OpenCV and the image formats coming from the camera.

I wiped clean previous JetPack installations and then, I setup JetPack 3, and then installed darknet. It was compiled with OpenCv and CUDA enabled.
The make file changes related to arch were made.

I can test individual images just fine.

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ShaktiD,

We could try to simplify this issue into Opencv + webcam issue.

What camera do you use? Do you know what pixel format is sent from camera?

Could you hit this error by using some simple samples?

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It’s the default CSI camera that comes with the Jetson TX1 development board.

I can install the Jetson Inference and run it just ok.

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Could you share the sample code you are running? The one that would hit error.

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This is the library I installed.

And then I am trying this:

./darknet detector demo cfg/coco.data cfg/yolo.cfg yolo.weights

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Please know.
Your help is very much appreciated.
My actual attempt was a bit mixed up but seeking help on such mix up is difficult.
So, I cleaned it up and have took the stock installation route.

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I would suggest to update to opencv 3.x first to check this issue. In the beginning, I thought this was some error from camera, but turns out not.

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No, it has something to do with OpenCV and formats it provides to the library.

Ok.
A very noob query here.
So, it’s ok to upgrade to OpenCV 3, it won’t impact other installations like visionworks etc?
Or I need to eliminate all of those as well?

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Any question is welcome.

Yes, we don’t verify visionworks with non-opencv4tegra so it may have error for some case.

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Ok.
So far, I have no use of Visionworks planned, so I will just go ahead and upgrade to OpenCV3.
Found one guide, Ubuntu 16.04 or 15.10 OpenCV 3.1 Installation Guide · intel/caffe Wiki · GitHub

Is this ok or any other you will recommend?

Thank you for all your help.

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Removed previous opencv.

Followed this guide.
http://docs.opencv.org/master/d6/d15/tutorial_building_tegra_cuda.html

It built correctly.
( The ‘make test’ for OpenCV however succeeded only 66%. )

Rebuilt darknet.

Same issue.

Will try building openpose too and see how that one goes.

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Hi,

Please try this section to see if v4l2 can get your sensor.

“Approaches for Validating and Testing the V4L2 Driver”.

Jetson Download Center | NVIDIA Developer L4T Jetson TX1 Driver Package 24.2.1

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I can’t locate any such section titled “Approaches for Validating and Testing the V4L2 Driver”.

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It is under
“Camera Software Development Solution”

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Are we on the same page? Jetson Download Center | NVIDIA Developer

I don’t see such section there.

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L4T Jetson TX1 Driver Package 24.2.1
->Camera Software Development Solution

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Is this solved? I am having the same error in jetson tx2 when I want to run the YOLO from the webcam

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Sorry for the late reply.

We figure out that this may be the pixel format issue from opneCV. As I know, opencv 3.2 only supports BGR and Gray.

Thus, please see what format is your webcam first.

v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats