http streaming with gst-launch (GStreamer)

How do I do http streaming with GStreamer?

Yes, I googled it and couldn't find an answer to this simple question anywhere.

Jeroen Jacobs

Posted 2012-06-30T17:39:07.380

Reputation: 293

What have you tried so far? What were your results? What are you trying to stream? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2012-06-30T19:08:09.773

I want to stream from a webcam. However, I can't find any destination "sink" for http-streaming (only for RSTP via UDP). As a possible workaround, I could dump the output to stdout and use vlc with the "-" parameter (= read from stdin), but I wondered there was a way to do http streaming from gst directly. – Jeroen Jacobs – 2012-07-01T14:09:41.653

Answers

I think you can use new hlssink plugin

Simple pipe to test hlssink localy:
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc is-live=true ! x264enc ! mpegtsmux ! hlssink max-files=5
then run vlc:
cvlc playlist.m3u8

if you want stream via net, start you web server and correct pipe:
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc is-live=true ! x264enc ! mpegtsmux ! hlssink max-files=5 playlist-root=http://server.com location=/var/www/hlssink playlist-location=/var/www/hlssink
there
/var/www/hlssink is your document_root directory
and open http://server.com/playlist.m3u8 playlist in vlc

victor1234

Posted 2012-06-30T17:39:07.380

Reputation: 211

Beware: the link http://en.it-usenet.org/thread/16987/25191/ is malicious.

– Lawrence I. Siden – 2016-09-01T19:11:07.380

You might be able to use the tcpserversink element from the tcp plugin: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-plugins/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-tcpserversink.html

rbailleu

Posted 2012-06-30T17:39:07.380

Reputation: 11

1Could you please describe how does it apply to the question? (Plain TCP versus HTTP) – pabouk – 2013-10-17T13:19:11.403