Personal streaming media service

Purpose

• to create personal media service for viewing, recording RTSP streams from video cameras;
• share the video stream with other users;

Application was tested

• Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04.6, Android 11;

Planned

• iOS, macOS;

Preview

Table of contents

• CamOnTime-server
  • Functions
  • Properties
  • Install
• CamOnTime-client
  • Functions
  • Install
• Installing additional software
• Contacts
• License

CamOnTime-server

Functions

  - user registration;
  - recording video files;
  - user access to cameras and files (depending on the status);

Properties

-pas - set server password (default: 1111); CamOnTimeServer -pas 2227
-p - set listen port (default: 1255); CamOnTimeServer -p 1675
-prtsp - set rtsp-server port for viewing video files (default: 8354); CamOnTimeServer -prtsp 8654
-f - set path to video files folder (default: home/user_name/Video); CamOnTimeServer -f D://VideoBox

Install

• GStreamer install;
• download application archive and unzip;
• start the server with parameters: CamOnTimeServer -pas 2227 -p 1675 -prtsp 8654

CamOnTime-client

The administrator create users and has access to all cameras.

Functions

• adding/deleting RTSP stream of camera;
• simultaneous viewing of several video cameras;
• setting the total time for recording files;
• setting the status of the video camera as publicly available for all users on the server;
• generating code for viewing the video camera by clients who are not connected to the server but have the application installed;
• copy/delete files;

Install

• GStreamer install;
• download application archive and unzip;
• start the CamOnTimeClient;

Installing additional software

Windows

• download installation files: gstreamer-1.0-mingw-x86_64-1.26.7.msi и gstreamer-1.0-devel-mingw-x86_64-1.26.7.msi;
• run with administrator rights;
• select Custom and check all plugins;
• add C:\gstreamer\1.0\mingw_x86_64\bin to PATH system;
• if after run the application there is an error with libgst3d11.dll or libgst3d12.dll - delete them from C:\gstreamer\1.0\mingw_x86_64\lib\gstreamer-1.0

  Ubuntu

  #sudo apt-get update && upgrade
  

• for show user interface:

  #sudo apt-get install '^libxcb.*-dev' libx11-xcb-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxrender-dev -y
  

• install the GStreamer plugins version 1.26.7: gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, gstreamer1.0-rtsp.

License

All code in this repository is released under the MIT license.
Application archives and compiled binaries make use of some third-party dependencies:

• Qt - the primary open-source license is the GNU Lesser General Public License v.3 “LGPL v3”;
• GStreamer - licensed under the LGPL v2.1;