Sending Recorded Video Though Camera Server on VOXL2

reber34

Hi all!

I would like to send a prerecorded video though the camera server to better understand how camera server configurations effect video quality at different transmission distances. I would like to do this so I can have consistent video for each of my tests vs different video outputted by the camera for each test. Does anyone know how someone would configure the voxl 2 to be able to do this?

Thanks!

Alex Kushleyev

@reber34 , perhaps this approach can work for you:

record a video encoded at high bit rate (using voxl-camera-server and voxl-record-video . Please note that the output of voxl-record-video will not be in a standard container (such as mp4, etc), but you can fix it with ffpeg : ffmpeg -r 30 -i voxl-record-video.h264 -codec copy videofile.mp4
re-encode the video offline with desired codecs / bit rates / resolutions
install gst-rtsp-launch which uses gstreamer to set up an RTSP stream https://github.com/sfalexrog/gst-rtsp-launch/
- you will first need to figure out what gstreamer pipeline to use on voxl2 that will load your video and parse the h264/h265 frames (can use null sink for testing) and then use that pipeline with gst-rtsp-launch which will take the encoded frames and serve them over rtsp stream.
gstreamer may be more flexible for tuning the encoding parameters of h264/h265 (compared to voxl-camera-server) and you can also use it in real time later (using voxl-streamer, which uses gstreamer under the hood)

Another alternative is to use voxl-record-raw-image to save raw YUVs coming from voxl-camera-server and then use voxl-replay and voxl-streamer - the latter will accept YUVs from the MPA pipe and encode them using the bit rate that you want. Note that depending on the image resolution, YUV images will take a lot more space than encoded video, but maybe that is also OK since VOXL2 has lots of storage.

Alex