[gst-devel] Trying to play a UDP webcam stream with VLC

[Steve Ricketts]

Ah, never knew about elements not knowing about dropped packets.  So, is 
there a similar rtp pipeline?

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From: "Donny Viszneki" <donny.viszneki at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:59 PM
To: "Discussion of the development of GStreamer" 
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Subject: Re: [gst-devel] Trying to play a UDP webcam stream with VLC

> This is just a guess, but perhaps if any of your packets get dropped,
> the stream is corrupted. TCP may be better anyhow because the server
> will not over-send to a client if enough throughput isn't available.
> To use UDP I think you'll need to use elements that know how to deal
> with dropped packets.
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Ricketts <velocedge at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'm just experimenting a little with gstreamer and have a problem I don't
>> quite understand.  I want to stream a live web cam and play it on another
>> computer with VLC.   I'm streaming a web cam video with:
>>
>> gst-launch v4l2src !
>> video/x-raw-yuv,width=320,height=240,framerate=\(fraction\)5/1 !
>> ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! multipartmux ! udpsink host=192.168.0.102
>> port=6279
>>
>> On the same computer, I can open VLC and play the udp stream with
>> udp://@192.168.0.102:6279 fine.  However, when I go to another computer 
>> it
>> says my input cannot be opened.  I thought it might have been a firewall
>> issue, but I've turned off all the firewalls and still no video.
>>
>> Is there something I'm not aware of regarding gstreamer?  Should I be 
>> able
>> to do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
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