Invoking "add-local-ip-address" on GstWebRTCICE

[Ben Rush]

Yes, you nailed it: I'm on an older release. gst-inspect showed that the
property didn't exist. I was hyper-focused on the latest source and failed
to inspect my local branch. I had actually thought about that over dinner
today while thinking about the post I made to this group. Thanks for
confirming it for me.

Can you explain "it needs updating to place the necessary properties on the
ICE object rather than on webrtcbin itself"? I'm willing to do the leg
work, I'm just not sure what you mean precisely.


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:47 PM Matthew Waters <ystreet00 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 17/7/20 7:55 am, Ben Rush wrote:
>
> Admittedly I seem to occasionally get myself confused when it comes to
> navigating objects and their properties in the GLib Object System. Often I
> find myself exploring sample code and piecing together an understanding
> from that. However, I can't seem to get at what I need here and am hoping
> someone can help.
>
> First, the main problem I'm attempting to solve is forcing WebRTCBin to
> restrict the addresses and ports used when generating ICE candidates. I'm
> behind a firewall, don't want to / can't use a TURN server in my specific
> scenario, and so would like to specify the exact ports / addresses to be
> considered as candidates. From examining the source, it appears as though
> my only way to do that is to rely on emitting this signal with the address
> information (IP/port):
>
>
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/webrtc/index.html?gi-language=c#GstWebRTCICE::add-local-ip-address
>
> So, I assume I'll need to call g_signal_emit_by_name() with the proper
> arguments, one of which being the object to receive the signal. All well
> and good, except for the fact that the receiving object is of type
> GstWebRTCICE. So, I need to get that object. Per this documentation:
> https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/webrtc/index.html?gi-language=c#webrtcbin:ice-agent it
> appears to be a property on the webrtcbin element.
>
> So, I have this code:
>
>     _pipeline = gst_parse_launch("webrtcbin bundle-policy=max-bundle
> name=sendrecv "
>         "autoaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! queue ! opusenc !
> rtpopuspay ! "
>         "queue ! " RTP_CAPS_OPUS "97 ! sendrecv. ", &error);
> .....
>     _webRtcElement = gst_bin_get_by_name(GST_BIN(_pipeline), "sendrecv");
> .....
>             GValue value = { 0, };
>             g_value_init(&value, G_TYPE_OBJECT);
>             g_object_get_property(G_OBJECT(_webRtcElement), "ice-agent",
> &value);
>             GObject* object = (GObject*)g_value_get_object(&value);
>
> But the value of the object is always null. What am I doing wrong? How am
> I navigating this improperly?
>
>
> Do you have a version of GStreamer that includes that?  The 'ice-agent'
> property on webrtcbin and 'add-local-ip-address' on gstwebrtcice is only
> available in master and is not in any released version yet.
>
> Also, I noticed this merge request:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/issues/856.
> I'm hoping this doesn't mean forcing a particular IP/port is even possible
> with webrtcbin.
>
>
> This MR would probably by your best bet but it needs updating to place the
> necessary properties on the ICE object rather than on webrtcbin itself.
>
> Cheers
> -Matt
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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