How to make an Ubuntu 18.04 an RTSP streamer and how to consume that?

RaspberryPi-Ubuntu18.04-RTSP-server.md

How to make an Ubuntu 18.04 server an RTSP streamer and how to consume that?

Prerequisites

Using a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server install you may need to enable ssh.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo ufw allow ssh

It is recommended to to the following steps in a new VM in order to not accidently mess up an existing installation!

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install flex
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libx264-devw
sudo apt install libffi-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install python3
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Get the required GStreamer sources from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/. Focus on version 1.16.2

1. Download & follow order

   1. gstreamer https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.16.2.tar.xz
   2. gst-plugins-base https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.16.2.tar.xz
   3. gst-plugins-good https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.16.2.tar.xz
   4. gst-plugins-bad https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2.tar.xz
   5. gst-plugins-ugly https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.16.2.tar.xz
   6. gst-libav https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.16.2.tar.xz
   7. gst-rtsp-server https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp/gst-rtsp-server-1.16.2.tar.xz

2. Unpack tar.xz files

tar -xf <filename>

3. Change into each of the unpacked dirs
4. Execute these commands in each directory

./configure
make
sudo make install

5. Change into gst-rtsp-server-1.16.2/examples

Running a test image

./test-launch --gst-debug=3 '( videotestsrc ! x264enc ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )'

Using /dev/video0 and H.264 software encoder Use VLC lo check the RTSP feed.

Install docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

sudo pip3 install docker-compose

./test-launch  --gst-debug=3 '( v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! x264enc tune="zerolatency" byte-stream=true bitrate=2000 ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )'

If your camera exposes H.264 directly (ways less CPU power required)

./test-launch  --gst-debug=0 '( v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-h264,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! h264parse ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )'

Consume the stream on a Mac, replace ip-of-rtsp-server by the real IP (GStreamer installation required)

/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Commands/gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<ip-of-rtsp-server>:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! osxvideosink sync=false

Consume on a Linux system, replace ip-of-rtsp-server by the real IP (GStreamer installation required)

gst-launch-1.0 -v rtspsrc location=rtsp://<ip-of-rtsp-server>:8554/test latency=0 buffer-mode=auto ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! autovideosink sync=false

Hi,

I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04, gstreamer 1.16.2. When I consume the rtsp server from linux (running also the rtsp-server in another machine with Realtek Semiconductor Corp. HK 2M CAM USB, also Ubuntu 20.04), I got:

./test-launch --gst-debug=3 '( v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1 ! x264enc tune="zerolatency" byte-stream=true bitrate=2000 ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 )'
stream ready at rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/test
0:00:38.884082723 87255 0x7f656c00c460 WARN basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3072:gst_base_src_loop: error: Internal data stream error.
0:00:38.884126825 87255 0x7f656c00c460 WARN basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3072:gst_base_src_loop: error: streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4)
0:00:38.884226999 87255 0x7f6574003460 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3001:default_handle_message: 0x7f657403f220: got error Internal data stream error. (gstbasesrc.c(3072): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPipeline:media-pipeline/GstBin:bin0/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src0:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4))
0:00:38.884283568 87255 0x55c1c690f860 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3272:wait_preroll: failed to preroll pipeline
0:00:38.884298256 87255 0x55c1c690f860 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3652:gst_rtsp_media_prepare: failed to preroll pipeline
0:00:38.885428257 87255 0x55c1c690f860 ERROR rtspclient rtsp-client.c:1077:find_media: client 0x55c1c6900e20: can't prepare media
0:00:38.885702712 87255 0x55c1c690f860 ERROR rtspclient rtsp-client.c:2963:handle_describe_request: client 0x55c1c6900e20: no media

0:00:49.109923321 87255 0x7f6574003ea0 WARN basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3072:gst_base_src_loop: error: Internal data stream error.
0:00:49.109953463 87255 0x7f6574003ea0 WARN basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3072:gst_base_src_loop: error: streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4)
0:00:49.110034939 87255 0x7f6574003cc0 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3001:default_handle_message: 0x7f6570016230: got error Internal data stream error. (gstbasesrc.c(3072): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPipeline:media-pipeline/GstBin:bin1/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src1:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4))
0:00:49.110105850 87255 0x7f656c00c460 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3272:wait_preroll: failed to preroll pipeline
0:00:49.110119862 87255 0x7f656c00c460 WARN rtspmedia rtsp-media.c:3652:gst_rtsp_media_prepare: failed to preroll pipeline
0:00:49.111010972 87255 0x7f656c00c460 ERROR rtspclient rtsp-client.c:1077:find_media: client 0x55c1c6900f50: can't prepare media
0:00:49.111278152 87255 0x7f656c00c460 ERROR rtspclient rtsp-client.c:2963:handle_describe_request: client 0x55c1c6900f50: no media

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Hello,
Try to compile gst-plugins-bad1.16.2 from sources returns the error on Ubuntu 18.04 . Any ideas ?

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/kaleido/Documents/MobyRTSP/doc/gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2/sys/nvdec'
CC libgstnvdec_la-gstnvdec.lo
In file included from nvcuvid.h:38:0,
from gstnvdec.h:33,
from gstnvdec.c:32:
cuviddec.h:39:10: fatal error: cuda.h: No such file or directory
#include <cuda.h>
^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:875: recipe for target 'libgstnvdec_la-gstnvdec.lo' failed
make[3]: *** [libgstnvdec_la-gstnvdec.lo] Error 1