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How to stream video to multiple computers?

asked 2018-06-20 21:59:35 -0500

adhipatiunus
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I'm working to create a package that allows multiple computers to stream their webcam to other computers while receiving others' stream as well.

Any idea how to implement this on ROS? Help is surely appreciated.

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Use regular pub-sub? Distributing data across multiple hosts is what is was created for, I would think.

gvdhoorn ( 2018-06-21 01:33:24 -0500 )edit

ROS FAQ on Networking is the place where you can start

Mikhail K. ( 2018-06-21 01:59:03 -0500 )edit

Try uvc_camera also .

chrissunny94 ( 2018-06-21 02:21:29 -0500 )edit

so rn i'm waiting for my second webcam to arrive and i'm planning to do the regular pub sub...

adhipatiunus ( 2018-06-24 08:41:25 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-06-21 02:09:38 -0500

pavel92

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updated 2018-06-21 03:17:18 -0500

Look into gstreamer in combination with OpenCV. Gstreamer allows various encoding options too (H264 compression for example) . Here is an video example of someone doing this with ROS. I hope that this helps.

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Is there supposed to be a link to a video in your answer? - I don't see one. There exists gscam as gstreamer-ros adapter btw.

Humpelstilzchen ( 2018-06-21 02:41:58 -0500 )edit

Thanks for pointing that out. The link is there now.

pavel92 ( 2018-06-21 03:19:35 -0500 )edit

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