VAR-SOM-MX6 GSTREAM

VAR-SOM-MX6 - Streaming Video

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Stream Camera with imxcamera application

On your host machine install Video Lan VLC VideoLan

• Find out your host IP address (Windows:ipconfig Linux:ifconfig)
• Start VLC, Media->Open Network Stream. Set the URL to "rtp://@:5004" and hit "Play".
• On target start imxcamera application.
  • Hit the Settigns button. Select "Enable RTP" box and set the IP to you host machine. Hit OK.
  • Push the Camera button to get a Video camera Image.
  • Hit the blue button and the camera will be streamed to you host VLC.

Introduction to gstream

GStreamer
GStreamer is a powerful pipeline-based multimedia framework.
GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing. This is not a GStreamer reference manual but a overview for using in on Variscite i.MX6 products.

Major GStreamer commands

Two major commands, the first one allow you to to get documentation on available elements and detail information on a specific element. The second one allow you to create and execute GStreamer pipelines.

gst-inspect

List all available elements:

$ gst-inspect 

List all avilable i.MX6 specific elements:

$ gst-inspect | grep imx

Detail help information on a specific element:

$ gst-inspect imxv4l2sink

gst-launch

Simple example:

gst-launch -v videotestsrc ! imxv4l2sink

Stream Camera with gstream

Image Name	How to use
Capacitive LVDS touch	VAR-STK-DT6.VAR-DVK-DT6

mp3enc.imx: mfw_mp3encoder: mp3 audio encoder v4lsink.imx: imxv4l2sink: v4l2 video sink isink.imx: mfw_isink: IPU-based video sink aiur.imx: webm: webm aiur.imx: aiurdemux: aiur universal demuxer tvsrc.imx: tvsrc: v4l2 based tv src v4lsrc.imx: imxv4l2src: v4l2 based camera src audiopeq.imx: mfw_audio_pp: audio post equalizer beep.imx: ac3: ac3 beep.imx: 3ca: ac3 beep.imx: beepdec: beep audio decoder beep.imx: beepdec.vorbis: Vorbis decoder beep.imx: beepdec.mp3: MP3 decoder beep.imx: beepdec.aac: AAC LC decoder amrdec.imx: mfw_amrdecoder: amr audio decoder vpu.imx: vpudec: VPU-based video decoder vpu.imx: vpuenc: VPU-based video encoder ipucsc.imx: mfw_ipucsc: IPU-based video converter