Stream video from PiCam to VLC and Browser
i got a camera modul for my raspberry pi some days ago. Here are some notes about the first experiment.
Methods one: stream a video over RTSP (piped or direct throught VLC)
expect a big time delay with this method! Scroll down for a faster one.
At first:
Installing VLC Player
sudo apt-get install vlc
From a forum post:
As far as I can tell, these instructions are obsolete. I'm having much more success with the (new?) v4l2 kernel driver for the camera. Run
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2, then any vlc command such ascvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 --v4l2-width 1280 --v4l2-height 720 --v4l2-fps 24 --v4l2-chroma h264 --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}'.
...and finally the obsolete solution. Works but i have a lot of encoding timeouts/videolags with it:
Streaming The Camera Video Using RTSP
Enter the following command to start the streaming:
raspivid -o - -t 0 -n | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}' :demux=h264
raspivid is used to capture the video
-o - causes the output to be written to stdout
-t 0 sets the timeout to disabled
-n stops the video being previewed (remove if you want to see the video on the HDMI output)
cvlc is the console vlc player
-vvv and its argument specifies where to get the stream from
-sout and its argument specifies where to output it to
Options
Specifying the camera resolution
raspivid -o - -t 0 -n -w 600 -h 400 -fps 12 | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/}' :demux=h264
-w Width available range: 64 to 1920
-h Height available range: 64 to 1080
-fps Frames per second: 2 to 30 (may change in the future)
Viewing The RTSP Stream Over The Network
You need a player which supports RTSP, for instance VLC, Quicktime, etc. Open a network stream using
rtsp://###.###.###.###:8554/
where ###.###.###.### is the IP address of the RPi.
Another method: Stream JPGs
from: [https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=45178]
Install mjpg-streamer. [https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer]
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/mjpg-streamer-master/mjpg-streamer-experimental/
/home/pi/mjpg-streamer-master/mjpg-streamer-experimental/mjpg_streamer -o "/home/pi/mjpg-streamer-master/mjpg-streamer-experimental/output_http.so -w ./www" -i "input_raspicam.so -fps 20 -x 320 -y 240 -vf -sh 50"Want real CCTV feeling? Try:
$ /home/pi/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental/mjpg_streamer -o "/home/pi/mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental/output_http.so -w ./www" -i "input_raspicam.so -fps 25 -x 320 -y 240 -sh 50 -ISO 800 -awb tungsten -ifx film -cfx 128:128"For all options see mjpg-streamer and camera documentations.
View in browser, vlc, mpv,... by visiting the URL: http://
