You should perform the following steps on a new SD card. Don't mess with existing solutions. It is not worth the $5 to loose something working.
I'm used to use Raspbian, so my suggestion is to go to https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ and download the latest Raspbian Stretch Lite. Flash it to your SD card. Mine have usually 16 GB, but maybe smaller work too. I'm using Etcher on macOS, a great tool for flashing.
After successful flashing enable ssh and prepare a running Wifi configuration.
A Wifi adapter should be attached to your Pi of course.
Change into the root of the flash image and...
touch ssh
touch wpa_supplicant.conf
Take an editor of your choice and add this to wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=<your_ISO-3166-1_two-letter_country_code>
network={
ssid="<your_SSID>"
psk="<your_PSK>"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
Change the your_xxx parts according to your environment.
Plug the SD card into your Pi and power it on.
Find your Pi's IP. You will know, how to do that.
ssh pi@<your_Pi's_IP>
Password is raspberry, in case you forgot.
sudo raspi-config
In config:
- Enable camera
- Expand file system
- Change the admin password to your favourite one
Save and exit raspi-config
sudo reboot
After reboot ssh again to your Pi and do these steps at console level:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
Test your installation. In order to do this run this command on your Pi:
raspivid -t 0 -w 640 -h 480 -fps 48 -b 2000000 -awb tungsten -o - | gst-launch-1.0 -v fdsrc ! h264parse ! rtph264pay config-interval=1 pt=96 ! gdppay ! tcpserversink host=0.0.0.0 port=5000
And this command on your Mac:
/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Commands/gst-launch-1.0 -v tcpclientsrc host=<your_Pi's_IP> port=5000 ! gdpdepay ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 ! videoconvert ! osxvideosink sync=false
or this on your Linux box:
gst-launch-1.0 -v tcpclientsrc host=<your_Pi's_IP> port=5000 ! gdpdepay ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false
You should see a video. This is already H.264, but not RTSP.
So we are going to enable this now.
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
Download gst-rtsp-server from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/. Should match the installed gstreamer version. This can be checked by
dpkg -l | grep gstreamer
At the time of writing this is 1.10.4
wget https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server-1.10.4.tar.xz
tar -xf gst-rtsp-server-1.10.4.tar.xz
cd gst-rtsp-server-1.10.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
Test your setup:
cd examples
./test-launch --gst-debug=3 '( videotestsrc ! x264enc ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )'
On your Mac:
/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Commands/gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<your_Pi's_IP:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! osxvideosink sync=false
or on your Linux box:
gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<your_Pi's_IP>:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false
You should see a test video.
Now we want to see the camera. For this we use the nice raspivid wrapper gst-rpicamsrc
cd ~
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/thaytan/gst-rpicamsrc.git
cd gst-rpicamsrc/
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Check, if gst-rpicamsrc is installed
gst-inspect-1.0 | grep rpicamsrc
Now for the final test:
cd ../gst-rtsp-server-1.10.4/examples
./test-launch --gst-debug=3 "( rpicamsrc bitrate=8000000 awb-mode=tungsten preview=false ! video/x-h264, width=640, height=480, framerate=30/1 ! h264parse ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )"
If it runs, remove --gst-debug=3 and let it run as a deamon by appending & to the command line above.
On your Mac and Linux box the same commands, as above:
/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Commands/gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<your_Pi's_IP>:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! osxvideosink sync=false
or
gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<your_Pi's_IP>:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false
For more insight into gst-rpicamsrc and possible other parmeters as already used above: