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arkhipenko / esp32-mjpeg-multiclient-espcam-drivers

ESP32 MJPEG Multiclient Streaming Server with latest Espressif drivers
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Have you tried multi-client in RTSP? #11

Closed kenneth558 closed 3 years ago

kenneth558 commented 3 years ago

Seems to me that RTSP would be the right philosophy for RTOS, but mainly because everything else in my surveillance system runs on RTSP. Never having compared stream CPU loads before nor have experience converting, I wonder if I can couple your multi-client aspects with stream conversion to RTSP. Have you ruled that out in some way?

arkhipenko commented 3 years ago

I found RTSP being too laggy - to the tune of several seconds + long start time. MJPEG is much more responsive and there is almost no start lag.

You can by all means couple RTSP streaming with the multi-client approach, but I have not done that.

arkhipenko commented 3 years ago

Good place to start is here: https://www.hackster.io/BnBe_Club/9-rtsp-video-streamer-using-the-esp32-cam-board-8832b4 you'll have to look into CRtspStreamer files

kenneth558 commented 3 years ago

The lag and delay you mentioned brings me to your side, considering the consequence; I'll add the new devices using the unconverted way first. If not enough devices can share the wifi bandwidth, then I'll consider converting. I'm thinking of four devices per corner of the building plus some out at the corner of the property looking in. We both know I'll never get them all done, but let's see what the bottleneck will end up being. I want to keep the ability to save 24x7 video to .mp4 segments (6 mins each) but also allow up to 2 persons off-site to log in and watch in real time like my current cameras can do. Motion detect may have to get bumped, I don't know; I would offload motion-detect, etc. to [an] SBC (Pine-64), but my main server (3.5TB+) saves the data in the end.

BTW, BnBe mentions somewhere that his work isn't REAL rtsp - it is actually mjpeg. I was put out by that.....

arkhipenko commented 3 years ago

A better solution for the security system is to have each esp32 cam push data to some backend instead of being a server. I can implement that if you want to hire me on Upwork.

kenneth558 commented 3 years ago

I really do appreciate the offer, but I have an income of $0/year. I'll give you 25% of it, but I'm sure you can find something more profitable. I always have to do my own development. This project is simply for security of my future partial inheritance, so it won't make any money. I'm just so angry at the vandals and burglars that I'm compelled to do it. Sorry about that

arkhipenko commented 3 years ago

No worries. Good luck!