VAR-SOM-MX6 GSTREAM
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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
| Command |
Description |
|---|---|
| gst-inspect | List all available elements |
| grep imx | List i.MX6 specific elements |
| gst-inspect imxv4l2sink | Detail help information on a specific element |