One request we get often here at Collabora Multimedia is from people using GStreamer in the embedded and mobile sector and are looking for ways to stream over RTSP with GStreamer, often in combination with various kinds of transcoding and proxying functions. Due to this we have launched a new project, the GStreamer RTSP server. This server is written by GStreamer maintainer Wim Taymans and is tightly based on the RTP infrastructure in GStreamer that he has been working on for quite some time now.
It is a server written in C which can stream any GStreamer supported file over RTSP using any of the wide range of RTP formats supported by GStreamer. It also allows you to take any RTSP or HTTP stream and proxy it onwards over RTSP. The screenshot below is of totem playing a RTSP stream of the Max Payne trailer from Apple’s website. The stream offered by Apple is a normal Quicktime http stream, but our RTSP server repackages it and retransmits it over RTSP on my local network on the fly.
The code is currently only available through a git repository which you can grab using this command:
git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/gst-rtsp-server.git gst-rtsp-server
The reason there is no formal release yet is due to early stage the software is in, while it works it is not very user friendly yet, with media paths having to be edited and compiled in with the server for instance. But for those looking for a RTSP server solution using GStreamer, which is suitable for putting onto embedded and mobile devices, then it might be enough to get you started and of course we at Collabora are available to offer assistance for those who want it. One hope we have is that this code will help people doing DLNA servers support the mobile profile of that specification for instance.
We also plan on moving the code into GStreamer’s code repository once that is migrated to git from CVS.
Nice! Does it do transcoding as well as streaming?
A little guide on how to run this would be really nice.
On wich mailing list and irc channel are news about this project discussed?
A little guide on how to run this would be really nice.
On wich mailing list and irc channel are news about this project discussed?
I would also like if you could write a new post once the project is more consumer ready.
@Christopher: yes, it also does transcoding. Some of the sample stream configurations in the code already do this.
@kab: there is a small README in the repository which tries to explain some of the very basics. You can also grab us on #gstreamer on irc.freenode.com. For the time being I think gstreamer-devel is also the natural mailing list for it. We might set up a separate IRC channel and mailing list if the server becomes popular.
Looking forward to the Git repositories of GStreamer :)
Neat!
Looking forward to see the progress of the project ;)
Cool! Seems like supporting RTSP won’t be an issue in my MediaServer. :)
How this will be different from Fluendo’s Flumotion?
@user: as far as I know there is no released version of Flumotion with RTSP support. The other thing is that this is all implemented in C, while Flumotion is Python.
I tried this:
Server: ./gst-rtsp-server
Client: gst-launch rtspsrc location=rtsp://localhost:1554/h264 debug=true ! fakesink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED …
RTSP request message 0xbfda7250
request line:
method: ‘OPTIONS’
uri: ‘rtsp://localhost:1554/h264’
version: ‘1.0’
headers:
body:
RTSP response message 0xbfda7234
status line:
code: ‘505’
reason: ‘RTSP Version not supported’
version: ‘1.0’
headers:
key: ‘CSeq’, value: ‘0’
key: ‘Date’, value: ‘Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:44:05 GMT’
body: length 0
ERROR: Pipeline doesn’t want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/rtspsrc0: Could not read from resource.
Additional debug info:
gstrtspsrc.c(3449): gst_rtspsrc_send (): /pipeline0/rtspsrc0:
Got error response: 505 (RTSP Version not supported).
Setting pipeline to NULL …
FREEING pipeline …
Seems like server doesn’t support OPTIONS. Any comments? TIA
Hi
Am trying to install gst-rtsp-server, I am facing some compilation issues please see the text below.
I would like to port this to Windows mobile, is there any rtspserver for windows mobile ??
[sbox-DIABLO_X86: ~/gst-rtsp-server] > make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/penguin/gst-rtsp-server’
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/penguin/gst-rtsp-server/src’
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -Werror -g -DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -g -O2 -MT gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.o -MD -MP -MF “.deps/gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.Tpo” -c -o gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.o `test -f ‘rtsp-session.c’ || echo ‘./’`rtsp-session.c; \
then mv -f “.deps/gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.Tpo” “.deps/gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.Po”; else rm -f “.deps/gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.Tpo”; exit 1; fi
rtsp-session.c: In function `gst_rtsp_session_get_media’:
rtsp-session.c:111: warning: ‘result’ might be used uninitialized in this function
make[2]: *** [gst_rtsp_server-rtsp-session.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/penguin/gst-rtsp-server/src’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/penguin/gst-rtsp-server’
make: *** [all] Error 2
Very nice intitiative Christian ! Very helpful when validating a client on mobile device, especially to debug tricky cases combined with a debugger (data sending interrupt, server suspended)
A big ‘thank you’ to the dev team.
Hi ,
I am not able to connect to the server, any idea what is the issue please see the log below
Setting pipeline to PAUSED …
RTSP request message 0xbfa1a5c0
request line:
method: ‘OPTIONS’
uri: ‘rtsp://10.187.109.46:1554/ps.3gp’
version: ‘1.0’
headers:
key: ‘User-Agent’, value: ‘RealMedia Player Version 6.0.9.1235 (linux-2.0-libc6-i386-gcc2.95)’
key: ‘ClientChallenge’, value: ‘9e26d33f2984236010ef6253fb1887f7’
key: ‘CompanyID’, value: ‘KnKV4M4I/B2FjJ1TToLycw==’
key: ‘GUID’, value: ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’
key: ‘RegionData’, value: ‘0’
key: ‘PlayerStarttime’, value: ‘[28/03/2003:22:50:23 00:00]’
key: ‘ClientID’, value: ‘Linux_2.4_6.0.9.1235_play32_RN01_EN_586’
body:
RTSP response message 0xbfa1a5a0
status line:
code: ‘505’
reason: ‘RTSP Version not supported’
version: ‘1.0’
headers:
key: ‘CSeq’, value: ‘0’
key: ‘Date’, value: ‘Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:11:25 GMT’
body: length 0
ERROR: Pipeline doesn’t want to pause.
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/rtspsrc0: Could not read from resource.
Additional debug info:
gstrtspsrc.c(3327): gst_rtspsrc_send (): /pipeline0/rtspsrc0:
Got error response: 505 (RTSP Version not supported).
Setting pipeline to NULL …
FREEING pipeline …
I get exactly the same problem that Anuroop :(