Configlet: Streaming video from a Pi to VLC using RTSP - bennest/ROV GitHub Wiki

Use sudo raspi-config to enable camera

To test that the camera is working: vcgencmd get_camera

Streaming using VLC

sudo apt-get install vlc

Create a script to turn your Raspberry Pi into a RTSP streaming server.

Create the file /home/pi/stream-rtsp.sh:

#!/bin/bash raspivid -o - -t 0 -w 800 -h 600 -fps 12 | cvlc -vvv stream:///dev/stdin --sout '#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/stream}' :demux=h264

'sudo chmod +x stream-rtsp.sh'

Start it: './stream-rtsp.sh'

I did find a page that discussed performance with streaming, and how to assign more memory to the GPU and how to monitor performance or something… TODO

Set it to run on startup: Sudo nano create the file /etc/systemd/system/stream-rtsp.service

[Unit] Description=auto start stream After=multi-user.target

[Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/home/pi/stream-rtsp.sh User=pi WorkingDirectory=/home/pi Restart=on-failure

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Set the service to auto start:

sudo systemctl enable stream-rtsp.service

Then you can start, stop, or check on the service with:

sudo systemctl start stream-rtsp.service sudo systemctl stop stream-rtsp.service sudo systemctl status stream-rtsp.service

View the stream using VLC

• Open VLC
• Open Network Stream
• rtsp://192.168.1.9:8554/stream

Of course use your own camera IP address in the 3rd step above...