Raspberry Pi/Camera streaming

• latency increases strongly when vlc or cvlc is used

direct udp stream

• Raspi with camera

raspivid -a 12 -t 0 -w 1280 -h 720 -hf -ih -fps 30 -o udp://192.168.1.10:5000

-a 12        # annotate
-t 0         # timeout disabled (default=5s)
-w 1280      # width
-h 720       # height
-hf          # horizontal flip
#-vf         # vertical flip
-ih          # insert inline headers to stream
-fps 30      # frames per second
-0 udp://192.168.1.10:5000    # send stream to ip:port

• Raspi with monitor

omxplayer --win 0,0,800,480 udp://@:5000

-win 0,0,800,480    # position of video window

direct tcp stream

• Raspi with camera

raspivid -a 12 -t 0 -w 1280 -h 720 -vf -ih -fps 30 -l -o tcp://0.0.0.0:5000

• Raspi with monitor

omxplayer --win 0,0,800,480 tcp://192.168.1.20:5000

• vlc with monitor

tcp/h264://192.168.1.20:5000

direct tcp stream with netcat

• Raspi with camera

raspivid -a 12 -t 0 -w 1920 -h 1080 -vf -ih -fps 25 -l -o - | nc -k -l 5000

• PC with monitor

mplayer -x 1280 -y 720 -geometry 0:0 -fps 200 -demuxer h264es -noborder ffmpeg://tcp://192.168.111.173:5000

rtsp stream (big latency)

• Raspi with camera

raspivid -t 0 -n -b 1000000 -g 30 -ih -pf baseline -w 640 -h 480 -fps 30 -o - | cvlc -v stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}' :demux=h264

• Raspi with monitor

omxplayer --win 0,0,800,480 rtsp://192.168.1.20:8554/

• vlc with monitor

rtsp://192.168.111.182:8554/

dual output (direct low latency + rtsp big latency)

• Raspi with camera

mkfifo video.stream
raspivid -a 12 -t 0 -w 1280 -h 720 -hf -ih -fps 30 -o - | tee video.stream | cvlc -v stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}' :demux=h264 | nc 192.168.1.20 5000 < video.stream

• Raspi with monitor

mkfifo video.stream
nc -l -p 5000 > video.stream | omxplayer --win 0,0,800,480 video.stream

gstreamer

• apt install gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-libav

• Raspi with camera (test)

raspivid -n -w 1280 -h 720 -b 4500000 -fps 30 -vf -hf -t 0 -o - | gst-launch-1.0 -v fdsrc !  h264parse ! tee name=splitter ! queue ! rtph264pay config-interval=10 pt=96 ! udpsink host=192.168.1.101 port=9000 splitter. ! queue ! filesink location="videofile.h264"

• Raspi with monitor (test)

gst-launch-1.0 -v udpsrc port=9000 caps='application/x-rtp, media=(string)video, clock-rate=(int)90000, encoding-name=(string)H264' ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false

Resolutions

• 1920 x 1080
• 1296 x 972 (full view)
• 1270 x 720

Links

• https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/26675/modern-way-to-stream-h-264-from-the-raspberry-cam
• https://chriscarey.com/blog/2017/04/30/achieving-high-frame-rate-with-a-raspberry-pi-camera-system/comment-page-1/
• https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/27082/how-to-stream-raspivid-to-linux-and-osx-using-gstreamer-vlc-or-netcat
• https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/27041/record-and-stream-video-from-camera-simultaneously

• https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Video/Tutorial-RTSP-Raspberry-Pi-B-Viewer-6-Cam-4-Cam/td-p/1536448
• https://serverfault.com/questions/386261/save-the-stream-to-mp4-files
• https://superuser.com/questions/766437/capture-rtsp-stream-from-ip-camera-and-store