Reading through this thread, I'm trying to understand the limitations/capabilities of SmartDMD, and it's reliability.

Specifically, there does not seem to be a solution for WPC, but there's one for Whitestar/SAM ? Or did I misunderstand ?

I'm rather puzzled however at how you can use a RPI to capture 3Mhz data using GPIOs, that kind of baffles me (I know RPI can do GPIO up to 20Mhz, but that's for output, not input).

Also one technical question on the smartdmd application itself: can it be run to output the DMD frame as a gstreamer source (so we could use a gstreamer graph for additionnal processing) ?

Regards

Thanks for these details

I assume you're using SMI (that's the only only I can think off, since the SPI signals are marked as optional), but anyway

Besides gstreamer, is there an alternative for getting the DMD frame ? Using a PC with a video grabber is way overkill for that usage... What about network broadcasting (it would be in that case a local 127.0.0.1 transfer) ? Does it transfer the entire frame or does it require specific handshake with a client SW ?

Regards