Research embedded video streaming solutions

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

We may not need to roll our own here. It might be as easy as setting up a config file for an already established video streamer.

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

We should take a look at Motion.

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

@bochola I'm assigning this to you so you can get a little bit more familiar with what we're doing here.

Basically we think that using a raspberry pi as a surveillance camera or some other sort of live streaming thing is probably already a solved problem, and we want to figure out what is the best solution.

So just do some googling around, looking for software that does live streaming on a raspberry pi from a camera, and you can report back what you found in a comment here.

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/make-video-streaming-camera-with-raspberry-pi

This one's interesting, uses a vlc command or motion

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/23182/how-to-stream-video-from-raspberry-pi-camera-and-watch-it-live

this is the one that Ben found I think, also uses a vlc command

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

this one's old but it seems like this guy knows what he's talking about https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/stream-video-from-the-raspberry-pi-camera-to-web-browsers-even-on-ios-and-android

actually its bs, it uses jpeg for compression instead of a reasonable codec such as h264

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

https://dantheiotman.com/2017/08/23/using-raspivid-for-low-latency-pi-zero-w-video-streaming/

this one says low latency

don't think this one is supported in a browser

james-herbstritt commented 5 years ago

https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/video-streaming-like-your-raspberry-pi-depended-on-it/

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

So i think we're seeing three main options:

raspivid piped to something
Motion
gstreamer

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

@bochola The other thing here that would be great is a way to mock our streaming setup for development and debug purposes. Ideally we can work on the front end and just have it get streams from our computers rather than from the raspberry pi

bochola commented 5 years ago

Here's all the ones I found that seem mostly applicable. The technical details are still fuzzy for me so I'm not sure which ones will be the most useful or not.

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/video-streaming-with-raspberry-pi-camera/

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Raspberry-Pi-Webcam-Server-and-Stream-/

https://www.hackster.io/sushree-subhasmita-jena/live-cam-with-raspberry-pi-e9f43d

https://opensource.com/life/15/9/turning-raspberry-pi-portable-streaming-camera

https://maker.pro/raspberry-pi/projects/raspberry-pi-webcam-robot

https://pi.processing.org/tutorial/camera/

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

Here's a good read. https://mux.com/blog/the-low-latency-live-streaming-landscape-in-2019/ Looking into WebRTC now.

mmgoodnow commented 5 years ago

WebRTC research:

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/building-a-raspberry-pi-2-webrtc-camera https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway https://github.com/kclyu/rpi-webrtc-streamer

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