VAR-SOM-MX6 GSTREAM

VAR-SOM-MX6 - Streaming Video

Under construction!!!

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

i.MX6 major elements

Prefix	Element Name	description
mp3enc.imx	mfw_mp3encoder	mp3 audio encoder
v4lsink.imx	imxv4l2sink	v4l2 video sink
isink.imx	mfw_isink	IPU-based video sink
v4lsrc.imx	imxv4l2src	v4l2 based camera src
vpu.imx	vpudec	VPU-based video decoder
vpu.imx	vpuenc	VPU-based video encoder
ipucsc.imx	mfw_ipucsc	IPU-based video converter