playbin2 undecoded video and about-to-finish signal

Krutskikh Ivan stein.hak at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 17:16:45 UTC 2016


I would like to bump my question...

2016-03-27 22:28 GMT+03:00 Krutskikh Ivan <stein.hak at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a video recording/broadcasting server with gstreamer and
> python.
>
> Right now I'm facing 2 tasks:
>
> - recording video from different sources (rtsp and http) and with
> different codecs (mjpeg,mpeg4,h264,h265) in a series of mkv files
>
> - broadcasting video from my archive to different clients using http and
> rtsp.
>
> Before discovering the playbin magic I used a number of template pipelines
> to capture video from source, pass it to multifilesink and ffmpeg to finish
> and store them in a convinient way, But if I could somehow feed my uri to
> playbin and get an undecoded video/audio stream from it, I would be able to
> put all my templates to single gstreamer pipeline: playbin uri=rtsp...
> (magic here) ! mpegtsmux ! multifilesink...  And that would be very
> convenient.
>
> The second task is more ambitious. I want to feed the recorded video to my
> clients as if it was a live source. Right now I have a file tree:
>
> /basedir/cam_name/yearmonthday/hour/minutesecond-duration.mp4
>
> Example:
>
> archive-test:/archive/video/multi/160327/21 # ls
> 0120-00125.mp4  0730-00120.mp4  1335-00120.mp4  1940-00125.mp4
> 2545-00120.mp4  3150-00120.mp4  3755-00120.mp4  4400-00125.mp4
> 5005-00125.mp4  5610-00125.mp4
> 0325-00120.mp4  0930-00120.mp4  1535-00125.mp4  2145-00120.mp4
> 2745-00125.mp4  3350-00125.mp4  3955-00125.mp4  4605-00120.mp4
> 5210-00120.mp4  5815-00120.mp4
> 0525-00125.mp4  1130-00125.mp4  1740-00120.mp4  2345-00120.mp4
> 2950-00120.mp4  3555-00120.mp4  4200-00120.mp4  4805-00120.mp4
> 5410-00120.mp4
>
> At some point in the future I recieve a request to play video from cam
> multi from  21:05 160327. I can then find my started file, construct a
> pipeline with playbin and multisocketsink, fast forward to the desired time
> and replace the uri of the file upon each about-to-finish signal. The
> complex part is that I also need an undecoded video stream since I plan to
> broadcast it to remote client without re-encoding.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) Is this design possible?
> 2) Where can I find some examples of such pipelines, preferably in python.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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