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

[Stefan Kost]

Am 03.06.2010 22:49, schrieb Steve Ricketts:
> Lol... I've been a googling!  ;-)   Actually, it really doesn't matter if I 
> drop a packet along the way as long as it keeps going.  I'll see what I can 
> find.  Thanks again for the reply!
> 

most elements come with an example in their docs. There is also a README part of
the rtp plugin.

Stefan

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> From: "Donny Viszneki" <donny.viszneki at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 3:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [gst-devel] Trying to play a UDP webcam stream with VLC
> 
>> Well udpsrc and udpsink are not any more complicated than that: they
>> simply send and receive UDP packets. There is no inherent feature of
>> UDP useful for recovering dropped packets. Indeed it would defeat the
>> purposes of UDP communication if any more features were built into
>> udpsrc and udpsink.
>>
>> You aren't the first to ask about building RTP pipelines. Maybe Google
>> around. I have never done it myself.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Steve Ricketts <velocedge at hotmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Ah, never knew about elements not knowing about dropped packets.  So, is
>>> there a similar rtp pipeline?
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Donny Viszneki" <donny.viszneki at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:59 PM
>>> To: "Discussion of the development of GStreamer"
>>> <gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> 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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