Video plus data streaming with racecapture

Introduction

Install ubuntu 22.x

Install ubuntu 22 in the typical way.

• Select Automatic Login without password

Disable keyring popup

Disable the keyring popup

Run the installer

curl -sL bit.ly/3RL9Yoj | bash

Reboot

Reboot the computer. It should automatically launch the RaceCapture app.

Edit RaceCapture settings

App Preferences

In the RaceCapture app, go to Setup / App Preferences:

• set Fullscreen -> ON
• Set Startup Screen -> Dashboard
• Turn off Session Recording

Dashboard Preferences

Go to Dashboard, then press the gear icon in the upper right of the dashboard. Touch More Settings

• Turn off Pit stop timer

Plug in camera(s)

Plug in 1 or 2 cameras into the USB port

• Note: Remember the ports the cameras are plugged into, and keep this consistent during use.

Plug in USB microphone

• Plug USB microphone into a USB port

Configure Dashboard

• Press Settings Gear Icon, go to More Settings / Camera Preferences

Select /dev/video0 for Camera1, and /dev/video2 for Camera2

Create a test dashboard

• Press the Settings gear icon, select Add Gauge
• create a video gauge, and select Camera 1 as the source.
• Resize to fit the dashboard.
• create another video gauge, and select Camera 2 as the source.
• Resize to be the picture-in-picture video window.
• Add additional gauges as you see fit, such as an analog speed gauge, track map, etc.

• Note If the cameras are reversed, you can swap the camera mappings in the main dashboard settings under More Settings / Camera Preferences

Video Streaming / recording

Edit the video-config.ini file in your user's Desktop directory.

Streaming Key / URL

If using Youtube: Set the streaming key as provided by youtube. Or, you can specify a custom URL.

Local recording

Video files will be recorded in the user's Videos directory

Microphone

If using a USB microphone (recommended) use the default audio_device=1

Example default config file

[capture]
audio_device=1

[local_recording]
video_dir=$HOME/Videos

[streaming]
streaming_url=rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/<streaming key>         

Maintenance/Troubleshooting

Open a terminal window

To open a terminal window for troubleshooting:

• Press ctrl+t then c

Log out

You can log out of the current session to access the original Ubuntu desktop to perform additional maintenance.

• Press ctrl_t then :
• Type 'quit' and press <enter>

Once you've logged out, you can log back into the Ubuntu desktop by pressing the gear icon in the lower right, and select Ubuntu.

To get back to the RaceCapture full-screen app mode, select "RaceCapture livestreaming" from this menu; this is the window manager that is configured to run RaceCapture in full-screen mode.