Please see this links for information about multicast addresses: Class D I think you have to be lucky in this step with your network configuration and your router. I had no experience of multicasting so I was surprised at how easy this step was once I had worked it out. The Video Stream being played on the PC in Full HD. In particular, the frame rate is really excellent.įigure 3.

The latency isn’t great – maybe 2 seconds but it is working very well as displayed in Figure 3. Press Play/hit enter and then after a few seconds the video stream should appear. The use of UDP unicast for viewing the video stream. Open VLC and go to Media -> Open Network Stream and under the “Network” tab enter the URL as illustrated in Figure 2.įigure 2. The UDP Stream being captured and unicasted from the Beaglebone. You can see this running in Figure 1.įigure 1. In this case you do not need a distributed configuration file, like in the case of RTP (you will see later). In my case the IP address is 192.168.1.4 – just to be clear, this is the IP address of my PC on which VLC is running. You can see that this works by starting up the capture program from my previous post and piping the raw video output to avconv where it specifies the location of the viewing instance. Where the address after udp:// is the one that you need to adapt. This has the source code for everything that is discussed from here on down. Getting Startedĭownload the source code for my boneCV repository. UDP Multicasting allows you to have many clients attach to the same video stream, which is really useful if you want to have the viewer instigate the connection and you wish to have many viewers. The downside of unicasting is that the video transmitter needs to know the destination address of the receiver – kind of the opposite of what you might expect! UDP unicasting is very similar to the RTP stream from before except there is no need to distribute a configuration file to the client via RTP or RTSP. This post looks at how you can stream video using UDP unicasting and multicasting. I also just posted on how to stream video data using RTP. The previous post is here and the final instructional page is here. In this post I am going to look at how you can begin streaming data using the camera and code that I had adapted previously.

In a previous post, I described how you could set up the Beaglebone Black to capture video and process video using OpenCV with the Logitech C920 camera.

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