RTSP Video Streaming

Prerequisites

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ramilsafnab1996/rtsp-video-server.git

git submodule update --init

cd rtsp-video-server

Install the dependencies (using apt package manager):

sudo apt-get install liblog4cpp5-dev

Install the dependencies from the contrib:

cd contrib

# Live555 video streaming server framework
cd live && ./genMakefiles linux-64bit && make -j$(nproc)

cd ../..

The most time- and nerve-consuming part, installing FFMpeg ...:

cd into the scripts directory (prepared bash scripts for installation):

cd scripts && chmod +x *

./install_ffmpeg_with_deps.sh

cd ..

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ..
make -j$(nproc)

Edit config.yaml for your needs.

Then you can run the server:

./video_server ../config.yaml

For simple testing whether the server works or not you can use MPlayer (preferred) or VLC:

sudo apt install mplayer

mplayer -benchmark rtsp://<ip address>:8554/webcam_0

Currently there is no support for the already compressed raw camera formats (e.g. MJPEG). In this case we have 2 options: send the data as it is (e.g. MJPEG stream) or transcode the original video stream into the format we need (e.g. H.264).
Lack of control of camera parameters (fps, resolution, etc.) at runtime (no API for that is provided).
RTSP multicast broadcasting is not supported (It can be implemted using Live555 API).
SSL is not supported (see SRTP).