@veye_xumm Thanks for your reply. The IMX482 does indeed look very good for low light recordings!

Are there any plans for camera modules based on the Sony IMX585 chip?

We (Institute of Marine Research, www.hi.no/en ) use some VEYE-MIPI-327E modules in our in-house cameras for low light observations of marine fauna, and we are generally very happy with the results. However, to enable even better observations the new IMX585 seems very promising. Do you have any plans regarding this chip?

@veye_xumm
Thank you for your reply.

Do you have a suggestion as the best way to implement date and time overlay in the video stream? I'm somewhat familiar with gstreamer, and the first solution that comes to mind is using veye_raspividyuv and piping the output to gstreamer, add the overlay, encode to h264 and store to files. This will of course increase the load on the raspberry as compared to using the internal h264-encoder.

Is there a better solution? Can this be done in using the python library instead of bash scripts?

I'm currently testing the VEYE-MIPI-327E on a Raspberry Pi 3 model A+, and so far I'm very happy with what I see. It would, however, be useful to overlay date and time in the video, as I will be storing lengthy recordings. In raspivid you can overlay text, date etc, with the -a / --annotate flag, but this seems to be missing in veye_raspivid. I poked around the source code, and the annotate functionality seems to be present, but when I try the -a or --annotate flag, veye_raspivid returns with

Invalid command line option (--annotate)

I don't have the skills to implement this myself, but should be able to follow simple instructions. Is there any way to overlay time/date information in a video with either veye_raspivid or the python library?

Thanks!