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Video Streaming Raspberry Pi Camera Via Python Sockets & VLC Media Player
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import socket | |
import subprocess | |
# Start a socket listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:8000 (0.0.0.0 means all interfaces) | |
server_socket = socket.socket() | |
server_socket.bind(('0.0.0.0', 8000)) | |
server_socket.listen(0) | |
# Accept a single connection and make a file-like object out of it | |
connection = server_socket.accept()[0].makefile('rb') | |
try: | |
# Run a viewer with an appropriate command line. Uncomment the mplayer version if you would prefer to use mplayer instead of VLC | |
cmdline = ['vlc', '--demux', 'h264', '-'] | |
#cmdline = ['mplayer', '-fps', '25', '-cache', '1024', '-'] | |
player = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) | |
while True: | |
# Repeatedly read 1k of data from the connection and write it to the media player's stdin | |
data = connection.read(1024) | |
if not data: | |
break | |
player.stdin.write(data) | |
finally: | |
connection.close() | |
server_socket.close() | |
player.terminate() |
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