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Chronos User Discussion / Is saving monochrome instead of RGB possible?
« on: March 16, 2023, 09:29:24 AM »
We have a Chronos 1.4 camera, connected to a SMB share. As of now, saving an entire video file (H.264) takes close to 10 minutes. Saving to a SD card is not faster, and adds the overhead of then transferring the file. Saving in other formats (TIFF, DNG) is much slower.
I'm imagining that if the video encoding would produce monochrome data, the file could be considerably smaller, and saving would be faster. Does this make sense? Is it possible to do? I think one could change the color matrix to effectively produce monochrome output, but as long as the video format carries RGB, the file size would not be affected.
The context is that we're watching an object and would like to make decisions based on a video recording while the object exists. The object exists for maybe up to 20 min, sometimes much less. Right now we can act on the video information once every 10+ minutes (not even counting the time needed to evaluate the video). It'd be great if this time could be cut in half , or shortened even more.
I'm imagining that if the video encoding would produce monochrome data, the file could be considerably smaller, and saving would be faster. Does this make sense? Is it possible to do? I think one could change the color matrix to effectively produce monochrome output, but as long as the video format carries RGB, the file size would not be affected.
The context is that we're watching an object and would like to make decisions based on a video recording while the object exists. The object exists for maybe up to 20 min, sometimes much less. Right now we can act on the video information once every 10+ minutes (not even counting the time needed to evaluate the video). It'd be great if this time could be cut in half , or shortened even more.