Why can't I receive an RTP video stream produced by appsrc?

Daniel Koch - external Daniel.Koch at caresyntax.com
Fri Aug 5 16:48:54 UTC 2022


Hello,

I was missing buffer timestamps indeed. 

So I added the 'do-timestamps' property to the appsrc, and RTP is working fine now.

Thank you,

Daniel Koch 

> From: Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 8:48 PM
> To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Cc: Daniel Koch - external <Daniel.Koch at caresyntax.com>
> Subject: Re: Why can't I receive an RTP video stream produced by appsrc? 
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > I'm trying to use the appsrc element with rtpbin and udpsink to
> > create an RTP sender using the VP8 codec (vp8enc).
> >
> > This program creates a fake video stream by switching black and white
> > frames every 100 milliseconds. You can see the video by uncommenting
> > the macro USE_AUTOVIDEOSINK.
> >
> > broadcaster.c:
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/5w2UaBgP
> >
> > receiver.sh (using gst-launch-1.0):
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/s1YG4DPa
> >
> > When I run the receiver, I only get the first frame. It doesn't
> > blink. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > PS: I'm using libgstreamer 1.20.3 from Ubuntu 22.04.
> 
> I haven't looked at the code in detail or tried to run it, but in your
> broadcaster you don't seem to set buffer timestamps on the buffers you
> push into appsrc, e.g. with something like
> 
>     GST_BUFFER_PTS(buffer) = gst_util_uint64_scale_round (frame_number,
>         GST_SECOND * FPS_DENOM, FPS_NUM);
> 
> or try setting appsrc do-timestamp=true and perhaps also set appsrc
> min-latency=40000000 (frame duration in nanoseconds for 25fps).
> 
> If you thread produces data in a timed manner (as it does given the
> usleep) you also don't really need to bother with the need-data and
> enough-data signals. Just produce your buffer and push it into appsrc
> when it's there (and make sure it gets timestamped one way or another).
> Your usleep will throttle the data production automatically.
> 
> Cheers
>  Tim



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