Network streaming

jyoti kulkarni jyotimk029 at gmail.com
Fri May 31 02:20:22 PDT 2013


Please can you point me to sites which have working examples on network
streaming using gstreamer0.10

thanks in advance
On May 31, 2013 1:12 PM, "Marc Leeman" <marc.leeman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > First, learn about logging. Here is a reference pointer since you are
> using
> > 0.10. http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/0.10.30/
> >
> > Another link
> >
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-troubleshooting.html
> >
> > More on logging:
> >
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gstreamer-GstInfo.html
> >
> > On the server, you don't want to 'decode'; you want to 'encode'. Use
> > 'encodebin' (I think this is the one). You should probably use
> 'decodebin'
> > on the client.
>
> In this particular case, he will be sending RAW video over the network
> in UDP form. This means that even though you will get the data on the
> receiver; you will have it in a format that your receiver knows little
> about (and you can only hope to have some defaults). It is raw; this
> means there is no or little information embedded in the stream. He
> will receive it (raw) and try to decode it as mpeg4; this will be a
> bit of a problem.
>
> The original information of the sender is far to little to come to a
> decent proposal or even an idea to understand what he wants to
> achieve. He has some kind of encoded data (probably MPEG2 or MPEG1,
> considering the container) and he wants to send it over the network in
> MPEG4. So he needs to decode it and then again encode it.
>
> Furthermore, sending in pure UDP is probably a bad idea; at the very
> least; split it in decent blocks under the MTU by using RTP to avoid
> UDP fragmentation.
>
> > You may have a problem with the IP Addresses. Search the archives for
> info
> > about IPv4 vs. IPv6 issues. One (either udpsink or udpsrc) uses IPv4 by
> > default, the other uses IPv6 by default.
> >
> > There are *LOTS* of examples available, both on the GStreamer site and
> > hundreds of other sites. Read all you can.
>
> There are indeed a lot of examples available. Any minimal google
> search will probably turn up something useful.
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