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#!/bin/sh
# default values for arguments
ssh_host="root@remarkable" # remarkable connected through USB
landscape=true # rotate 90 degrees to the right
output_path=- # display output through ffplay
format=- # automatic output format
webcam=false # not to a webcam
measure_throughput=false # measure how fast data is being transferred
# loop through arguments and process them
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
-p | --portrait)
landscape=false
shift
;;
-s | --source)
ssh_host="$2"
shift
shift
;;
-o | --output)
output_path="$2"
shift
shift
;;
-f | --format)
format="$2"
shift
shift
;;
-t | --throughput)
measure_throughput=true
shift
;;
-w | --webcam)
webcam=true
format="v4l2"
# check if there is a modprobed v4l2 loopback device
# use the first cam as default if there is no output_path already
cam_path=$(v4l2-ctl --list-devices \
| sed -n '/^[^\s]\+platform:v4l2loopback/{n;s/\s*//g;p;q}')
# fail if there is no such device
if [ -e "$cam_path" ]; then
if [ "$output_path" = "-" ]; then
output_path="$cam_path"
fi
else
echo "Could not find a video loopback device, did you"
echo "sudo modprobe v4l2loopback"
exit 1
fi
shift
;;
-h | --help | *)
echo "Usage: $0 [-p] [-s <source>] [-o <output>] [-f <format>]"
echo "Examples:"
echo " $0 # live view in landscape"
echo " $0 -p # live view in portrait"
echo " $0 -s 192.168.0.10 # connect to different IP"
echo " $0 -o remarkable.mp4 # record to a file"
echo " $0 -o udp://dest:1234 -f mpegts # record to a stream"
echo " $0 -w # write to a webcam (yuv420p + resize)"
exit 1
;;
esac
done
# technical parameters
width=1872
height=1404
bytes_per_pixel=2
loop_wait="true"
loglevel="info"
ssh_cmd() {
ssh -o ConnectTimeout=1 "$ssh_host" "$@"
}
# check if we are able to reach the remarkable
if ! ssh_cmd true; then
echo "$ssh_host unreachable"
exit 1
fi
fallback_to_gzip() {
echo "Falling back to gzip, your experience may not be optimal."
echo "Go to https://github.com/rien/reStream/#sub-second-latency for a better experience."
compress="gzip"
decompress="gzip -d"
sleep 2
}
# check if lz4 is present on remarkable
if ssh_cmd "[ -f /opt/bin/lz4 ]"; then
compress="/opt/bin/lz4"
elif ssh_cmd "[ -f ~/lz4 ]"; then
compress="\$HOME/lz4"
fi
# gracefully degrade to gzip if is not present on remarkable or host
if [ -z "$compress" ]; then
echo "Your remarkable does not have lz4."
fallback_to_gzip
elif ! lz4 -V >/dev/null; then
echo "Your host does not have lz4."
fallback_to_gzip
else
decompress="lz4 -d"
fi
# use pv to measure throughput if desired, else we just pipe through cat
if $measure_throughput; then
if ! pv --version >/dev/null; then
echo "You need to install pv to measure data throughput."
exit 1
else
loglevel="error" # verbose ffmpeg output interferes with pv
host_passthrough="pv"
fi
else
host_passthrough="cat"
fi
# list of ffmpeg filters to apply
video_filters=""
# store extra ffmpeg arguments in $@
set --
# calculate how much bytes the window is
window_bytes="$((width * height * bytes_per_pixel))"
# rotate 90 degrees if landscape=true
$landscape && video_filters="$video_filters,transpose=2"
#$landscape && video_filters="$video_filters"
# Scale and add padding if we are targeting a webcam because a lot of services
# expect a size of exactly 1280x720 (tested in Firefox, MS Teams, and Skype for
# for business). Send a PR is you can get a heigher resolution working.
if $webcam; then
video_filters="$video_filters,format=pix_fmts=yuv420p"
if $landscape; then
render_width=$((720 * height / width))
else
render_width=$((720 * width / height))
fi
# center
offset_left=$(((1280 - render_width) / 2))
video_filters="$video_filters,scale=${render_width}x720"
video_filters="$video_filters,pad=1280:720:$offset_left:0:#eeeeee"
fi
# set each frame presentation time to the time it is received
video_filters="$video_filters,setpts='(RTCTIME-RTCSTART)/(TB*1000000)'"
# read the first $window_bytes of the framebuffer
head_fb0="dd if=/proc/237/mem bs=3647 count=721 skip=527864 2>/dev/null > /tmp/restream && sleep 0.1 && dd if=/tmp/restream bs=2628288 count=1 2>/dev/null"
# loop that keeps on reading and compressing, to be executed remotely
read_loop="while $head_fb0; do $loop_wait; done | $compress"
set -- "$@" -vf "${video_filters#,}"
if [ "$output_path" = - ]; then
output_cmd=ffplay
else
output_cmd=ffmpeg
if [ "$format" != - ]; then
set -- "$@" -f "$format"
fi
set -- "$@" "$output_path"
fi
set -e # stop if an error occurs
# shellcheck disable=SC2086
ssh_cmd "$read_loop" \
| $decompress \
| $host_passthrough \
| "$output_cmd" \
-vcodec rawvideo \
-loglevel "$loglevel" \
-f rawvideo \
-pixel_format gray8 \
-video_size "1872,1404" \
-i - \
"$@"
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