Streaming video often means watching video whilst downloading it from the web (e.g. YouTube); for the RPi it also refers to the process of capturing video data from attached "Raspicams" or USB attached cameras and forwarding it to other computers, either on a LAN or out on the Internet. This tag is to be used for questions about how to stream video to and from the RPi.
Questions tagged [streaming-video]
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How can I stream H.264 video from the Raspberry Pi camera module via a web server?
So I got the Raspberry Camera today and got stills working fine.
Capture an image in JPEG format:
raspistill -o image.jpg
Capture a 5-second video in H.264 format:
raspivid -o video.h264
I do not want to install any extra application as I want to…
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Can I use Raspberry Pi in commercial production?
I'm quite new to Raspberry Pi. I recently started hacking my new RPI with raspbian and working on a video streaming project.
I finished my prototype and things are ready for production.
RPI is awesome no doubt about, but can I use it for production…
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Modern way to stream H.264 from the Raspberry Cam
I got the Pi B+ and the Pi camera and am now trying to find the most efficient (low CPU) and lowest-latency configuration to stream H.264 encoded video from the camera to my home server.
I've read the…
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Is there any workaround for Netflix compatibility?
I know that Netflix does not work with Linux because Moonlight (an open-source implementation of Silverlight) doesn't support encryption.
Have any workarounds or solutions been identified to bring Netflix to the Raspberry Pi for those of us that…
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record and stream video from camera simultaneously
I am recording video from Pi using Camera Module with picamera:
import picamera
with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
camera.resolution = (640, 480)
camera.start_recording('1.h264')
camera.wait_recording(5)
for i in range(2, 11):
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Enabling high resolution capture from web camera
I'm experimenting with using the Pi for web cam streaming and motion detection, with the motion app. Trying a few different web cameras and combinations with other hardware, I've found one combination that is perfectly stable (see below). However,…
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Stream videos wirelessly from PC to Pi to TV?
I have a collection of movies (Please note: Mostly 1080p) on my external hard disk drive. This drive is attached to my PC (Mac). The external hard disk also contains some important work files, hence I will not be able to detach it from my Mac.
I…
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Streaming H264 with Logitech C920
I have a logitech C920 webcam. It has the ability to directly encode the video in H264.
I want to reproduce what was done with a Beaglebone, but using a Raspberry Pi: send a H264 stream to the network. The Raspberry Pi is then only here to packetize…
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How can I get Raspivid to skip h264 encoding? (getting rid of 5 second latency streaming video)
There are gazillions of forums and threads about getting rid of a 5 second latency when using a Pi together with a PI-Cam as a surveillance camera. Many tutorials show how to use vlc to encode and stream the images using the RTP protocol which…
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HTTP Live Streaming
I current have a setup using Motion to stream video from a webcam attached to a raspberry pi. Unfortunately this is quite low quality and has a poor frame rate.
I am looking into using HTTP Live Streaming, but details about this a vague at best…
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How to stream low-latency video from the RPi to a web browser in realtime
I took me a while of hunting, but I managed to get low-latency real-time video streaming working on my RPi2.
I'm running this on my RPi2:
raspivid -t 999999 -h 720 -w 1280 -fps 25 -b 2000000 -vf -o - | gst-launch-1.0 -v fdsrc ! h264parse !…
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Is it possible to stream H.264 with RTSP on Raspberry Pi?
I'm trying to set up a video conferencing system by using two Raspberry Pi boards.
How can I stream the H.264 protocol over a real-time streaming protocol via an Ethernet connection?
Which OS should I use to develop on the Raspberry Pi board?
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H265 decoding performance on a Pi 3
Though there seems to be little information available, I've seen several posts of people successfully decoding H265 video on the Pi 3 either with, or without overclocking.
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 3, which is used primarily as a Plex media server.…
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Using the UV4L driver to stream video from the raspberry pi camera to android phone
Hello raspberry people!
I'm posting a new question because I don't have enough rep on raspberrypi.stackexchange to post a comment on this post: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/15000/stream-video-from-rpi-cam-to-android-phone which…
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What streaming solution for the Picam has the smallest lag?
This post shows how to stream using VLC. It works nice and is simple, but it gives me about a second lag. This post uses GStreamer, and it has 0.3 second lag; I would like less.
Is it possible to use Raspberry Pi graphics chip to speed up the…
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