1080p Main/Baseline Profile H.264 Surveillance Camera in a low cost FPGA

[mojojojo1001]

what is the difference between main and baseline?

[fetymann]

Do you know if there is an easy way to adapt different lenses onto that CCD? I am trying to find a way to build a lower cost but high end HD video camera with the ability to use regular Nikkor camera lenses. It would need either some sort of viewfinder or a small monitor lcd to use with it. Record straight to a laptop or an external USB/Flash hard drive. Do you know if this is possible? I'm trying to decipher Altera's website.

[EyeLytics]

The sensor in the demo is a CMOS sensor from Aptina. A CCD sensor will work with minor modification. Any C-mount lens should work but I have not tried it. The demo can actually record compressed video straight to a PC although the feature is not shown in the demo video. If you put the design inside an ASIC, the cost will be extremely low.

[fetymann]

so since your frame rate goes out the window when it's switched to 1080, do you know if you can record/capture it at 30fps 1080 rather than previewing it at a lowered rate?

[EyeLytics]

Using CycloneIII, the EyeLytics Encoder used in this demo can do 1080p at 15fps. To acheive 1080p at 30fps, one can either switch to StratixIV or ASIC. Or one can instantiate two cores inside the same CycloneIII. There are enough resources inside the CycloneIII to instantiate two.