PiToPiVideo

Two-way video for Raspberry Pi

Automatic streaming

X version

Sending end

Copy start-sending.sh to /home/pi.

Create /home/pi/send.sh:

(cd src/PiToPiVideo/ && SRC_IP=192.168.0.100 ./start-sending.sh)

Use this machine's IP address.

Add to .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:

@./send.sh

Receiving end

Copy start-receiving.sh to /home/pi.

Create /home/pi/receive.sh:

(cd src/PiToPiVideo/ && SRC_IP=192.168.0.100 ./start-receiving.sh)

Use the sending machine's IP address.

Add to .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:

@./receive.sh

Add this before the sink to scale the image to the screen size if the size of the stream doesn't match:

videoscale ! video/x-raw,width=1080,height=720 !

Scaling reduces the framerate significantly.

Framebuffer version

TODO

Video sinks

Works well

ximagesink

Needs X.

fbdevsink

Framebuffer version. Doesn't need X.

Very slow

autovideosink

Uses glimagesink.

cluttersink

glimagesink

Cool effects

aasink

Fails because of missing font.

cacasink

Nice ASCII effect, but very slow.

Doesn't work

xvimagesink

No Xv port available.

Not tested

intervideosink

Cannot be used effectively with gst-launch.

waylandsink

Depends on Wayland.