# Slim, tough USB cable for external Low-Light USB Camera?
**URL:** https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/slim-tough-usb-cable-for-external-low-light-usb-camera/2479
**Category:** Build/Make
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/slim-tough-usb-cable-for-external-low-light-usb-camera/2479 "2018-04-12T21:25:49Z")
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### Author:  [@danzimmerman](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/danzimmerman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/slim-tough-usb-cable-for-external-low-light-usb-camera/2479/3 "2018-12-16T18:32:42Z")
Yes, it is. This camera plugs into a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B housed in the ROV’s main electronics enclosure. I use gstreamer (gst-launch-1.0) to stream video and use MAVLink for remote control over the Fathom X tether system. Topside, I use QGroundControl.
On an older version of Raspbian, I used the companion computer setup script to get gstreamer working:
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Here’s a thread that started when I was getting it working the first time:
> [@Using Blue Robotics Low LIght USB cameras in ROV system](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/using-blue-robotics-low-light-usb-cameras-in-rov-system/2097/20):
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> I’m trying to use gstreamer to stream from the low-light USB webcam to QGroundControl with the following command: gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=$DEVICE do-timestamp=true ! video/x-h264, width=$WIDTH, height=$HEIGHT, framerate=$FRAMERATE/1 ! h264parse ! queue ! rtph264pay config-interval=10 pt=96 ! udpsink host=192.168.1.222 port=5600 (already have WIDTH=1920, HEIGHT=1080, FRAMERATE=15, DEVICE=/dev/video1, with video1 verified to be the H.264 source) It fails quickly with the following erro…
I think that recent versions of Linux on the RPi might just work with gst-launch-1.0 binaries installed using apt, and you probably don’t have to build from source, but I’m not sure.
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