This is a test of streaming video from the Raspberry PI camera to my PC. I had to install netcat https://eternallybored.org/misc/netcat/ and MPlayer http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimed...

Then I created a file on the raspberry containing this command:



#!/bin/bash

raspivid -n -hf -vf -fps 25 -w 640 -h 480 -fl -t 0 -o - | nc 192.168.1.67 5001

 

raspivid creates a file with video in H264 format and I then pipe it to the nc command that sends it to my PC at port 5001.

In the PC I have a scipt that captures the information on port 5001 and sends it as a file to mplayer. It looks like this:



C:\netcat\nc64.exe -L -l -v -p 5001 | "C:\Program Files (x86)\MPlayer for Windows\Mplayer.exe" -fps 40 -cache 1024 -



The raspivid command creates a file at 25 fps, but I force the player to play it at 40 fps. So it will try to play at that speed until it reaches the end of the buffer. That way I get a relativley low latency. I think it is about 200ms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTtCBu6nUc

GroG

9 years ago

Great Video Mats,

Very impressive speed (no latency), which for the most part I think is one of the most important qualities for a camera in Tele-robotics or computer vision.

I wonder if there is a container for the video stream.. AFIAK raw H264 can probably be played by mplayer, but might not be played by any browser.  

A quick way to find out is to host a HTML5 page with video tag on the raspi

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp 

I've found in chrome - if you don't specify the container format (leave type blank), it will try to figure it out..

You could install apache, make a quick html5 page and point the src of the video tag to ....   huh .. just looked at your raspivid command line - your specifying your pc's IP ?  So then is it rsp:// or rstp://  protocol ?

Ohhh... netcat to netcat to file cache .. :)   Wow !

Never seen that before 

 

It's a very raw way to to it. Perhaps I can use a named pipe as input to OpenCV ?

Could be an interesting test.

Mats

9 years ago

The video was banned from Youtube....... I don't understand anything. Is thumbs up an obscene gesture or what......

Or is it the link to where I found the software using Google. Who should be blamed then. Perhaps the owners of YouTube aka Google...  Duh.

 

GroG

9 years ago

Was there music playing in the background ?   There are millions of lawyer bots crawling youtube - part of the big media lawyer swarm.  Evil thing .. they mindlessly scour Youtube for copyrighted music.   

They do audio signal matching - .. when a bot gets a match with copyrighted music the video is instantly banned.

If this is the case - you can remove the audio to allow it to stay on youtube.

No music at all. Just me speaking and showing streaming frrom the Raspberry Pi to my PC.

This is the message I got and it doesent' state anything about copyright violation. And it doesen't give me any clue to why it was removed. 

 The YouTube community flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. After reviewing the content, we’ve determined that the videos violate our Community Guidelines.

Grrrr ^ 2

 

GroG

9 years ago

I thought the RasPi drivers for the camera module supported V4L2 .. if so, it shoudl "theoretically" be possible to get OpenCV to capture from the camera.  Of course, the latest version of MRL has binaries from JavaCV - and they do not compile for ARM-7 Linux :( 

But I think Alessandro already has compiled it ! ...  I'd be very curious to see if it worked...

There is a new service coming too ... WebCam, and I think its even higher likelyhood of working with the camera.