Issue with H264 incompatible camera

regzon commented 5 years ago

I have a web camera that doesn't support H264 format. And the application silently fails on all requests to the RTSP server.

Fix for this problem is a custom GStreamer Pipeline:

v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! capsfilter caps=video/x-raw,width=640,height=480 ! jpegenc ! rtpjpegpay name=pay0 pt=96

But I think this could be an option for the application (or maybe there can be automatic detection of supported camera outputs)

Ullaakut commented 5 years ago

Hi @Regzon!

Nice suggestion :) This could be a nice feature indeed, but I'm not really able to 100% maintain this project anymore unfortunately, since I have a lot of other stuff on my plate.

If you want, we can either:

Since I am limited by time, I can add a tip in the README saying that cameras not supporting H264 are not supported by the default pipelines, and recommending to use the pipeline you mentioned
Or, if you have the time to make a pull request proposing the feature you suggested, I can review it and merge it this week :)

Let me know what works best for you

Ullaakut commented 5 years ago

Any update on this @Regzon? Thanks

regzon commented 5 years ago

Sorry for a late reply. I am not working with this camera anymore, so can't test this. I think we can put the hint somewhere in README. That should be okay.

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Issue with H264 incompatible camera #72