[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras

shbatm

@swvalenti That could be. OMX player doesn’t switch very easily. VLC switching was working well on the newest version of Rasbian with OpenGL (Fake KMS) enabled.

swvalenti

@shbatm said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

@swvalenti That could be. OMX player doesn’t switch very easily. VLC switching was working well on the newest version of Rasbian with OpenGL (Fake KMS) enabled.

How do I make that switch and implement? Sorry for the noob question.

shbatm

@djuscha said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

I found that on my troubleshooting on the internet maybe that helps us?
RTSP-Stream-Viewer

Thanks for the link. Bits of that script look like the script I saw which originally inspired me to use omxplayer, but it has some additional options (like pushing a video off the screen instead of stopping it) that seem promising. I ended up using pm2 instead of screen because that’s what most MM users were already using, and it had the auto restart feature built in.

I don’t have much time for the next month or so to keep playing with the omx version, so if you wouldn’t mind, please open an issue on GitHub, and if you or anyone has time/skills to implement, I’ll be happy to take a PR.

To-do (notes to myself or anyone that works on this):

Implement dbus control to move the video off-screen instead of stopping it when we need to hide it: Example dbuscontrol.sh; npm dbus Package
Implement ffmpeg & vlc’s shutdownDelay option for omx player (e.g. move the video off-screen and stop it after x seconds instead of stopping it immediately when hiding a stream).

shbatm

@swvalenti said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

How do I make that switch and implement? Sorry for the noob question.

Look back at previous posts in this thread, there should be several posts from the past month about switching and upgrading.

shbatm

@djuscha Use the latest develop branch version if you still want to use omxplayer with OpenGL (Fake KMS). I was stumbling around and found that omxplayer requires the --no-osd flag to work properly with the OpenGL (Fake KMS) driver.

costascontis

can someone use vlc instead of omxplayer with your module?If yes whats the pro and con on that?

BKeyport

@costascontis said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

can someone use vlc instead of omxplayer with your module?If yes whats the pro and con on that?

I know on the develop branch you can.

Pro: it kept the original aspect ratio.
con: it didn’t work more than once.

shbatm

@costascontis said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

can someone use vlc instead of omxplayer with your module?If yes whats the pro and con on that?

Yes, its still experimental but was working fine for me. If you’re on a Raspberry Pi, it works best if you’re using the newest distro of Raspbian because VLC has Hardware Acceleration enabled.

Your mileage may vary between omxplayer and VLC. OMXPlayer is finicky and doesn’t rotate streams well (will be working on that)–VLC should in theory be much more stable and easy to use, but some people have had issues getting it to respond correctly on the Pi.

Back up a few pages on this thread to find out how to install the develop branch.

Cr4z33

@shbatm I hope your module will be perfect one day until then I have unfortunately to give up with the channel switching function and set a static Radio/TV stream. :thumbs_up_medium-light_skin_tone:

Cr4z33

Hi @shbatm ,

how is the bug fixing job doing right now? :)

I’ve done in the meantime some testing both with VLC and OMXplayer options by using different streaming sources like mp3 podcasts, mp4 live channels & some IP cameras (that I’ve got at home).

I can confirm that something is wrong in the module code because the EXACT same issue (wrong stream selected while switching) is happening with the above sources. :confused_face: