[gst-devel] Delay in playing IP camera's RTSP stream

[Wim Taymans]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:23 -0800, gstPrafull wrote:
> Hi,
> I have OAbuild (windows) Gstreamer version 0.10.22 
> I am playing  RTSP stream from IP camera (AXIS camera) using following
> pipleine in Gstreamer
> 
> gst-launch-0.10.exe uridecodebin uri=rtsp://192.168.1.95/mpeg4/media.amp !
> ffmpegcolorspace !directdrawsink
> 
> Though it plays video real-time, rendering has some delays as compared to 
> actual stream. This might be  due to some buffering which happen initially
> which gets refreshed subsequently and I could get to see non-stop real time
> video.
> How can we reduce this buffering duration sso as to reduce the delay.

You'll have to use rtspsrc directly like:

gst-launch rtspsrc location=rtsp://... ! decodebin2 ! ...

rtspsrc has a latency property which is conveniently set to 3 seconds by
default but can likely be reduced to 200ms.

Wim

> 
> Thanks,
> Prafull