Best way to save streaming video so that I can seek through it locally?

[Patrick Doyle]

How far back do you need to go?

Could you tee the video pipeline into a leaky queue into an appsink?
The queue would discard the oldest frames (GST_QUEUE_LEAK_DOWNSTREAM).
When you need to back up, your client code could pull the last N
seconds of frames from the appsink and start playing back from there.

It's a little off the wall, but maybe that would work for you.  I'm
planning on a similar idea for a "black box recorder" -- keep dumping
video frames into a leaky queue.  When a "What just happened?" event
occurs, I can scribble that queue to a file and review it at my
leisure.

--wpd


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Kevin Boos <kevinaboos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Arjen,
>
> Thanks for the advice. I have actually previously looked at RTSP and thought it might work, but it is not as flexible as I need. I really need a way to cache the incoming video stream on the client so that seek operations are purely local, instead of relying on asking the server to seek remotely. (due to latency and timing reasons.)
>
> Is there a way to make my current setup better, while still using something like tcpserversink and tcpclientsrc?
>
> Thanks again,
> Kevin
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Arjen Veenhuizen <arjen.veenhuizen at tno.nl> wrote:
>
>> You could take a look at RTSP:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Streaming_Protocol
>> And here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-rtsp-server
>>
>> Using RTSP, you can seek remotely and you don't have to jump through loops
>> to save and play locally.
>>
>>
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