Solutions to stream from a decklink card to browsers (Gstreamer -> TCP MJPEG -> ?)

Question

I need to live stream from a decklink card to a browser. I also must be able to do it with a very poor network link (128kbits/s...), so I need to be able to stream at a very low

Answer 1

I got the websockets solution working, thanks to the node Dicer module (and thanks to mscdex on this post ).

So here is what I did :

1°) Stream my Decklink card's video over TCP whith GStreamer :

gst-launch -v decklinksrc mode=10 connection=0 ! deinterlace ! videorate ! videoscale ! video/x-raw-yuv, framerate=1/5, width=256, height=144 ! jpegenc quality=20 ! multipartmux  boundary="--videoboundary" ! tcpserversink host= port=

2°) Listen to this stream with Node and send each image via socket.io :

// ------------------------------------------------
// Constants :
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var srcHost = "";
var srcPort = 
var srcBoundary = "--videoboundary";

var destHost = "";
var destPort = ;

// ------------------------------------------------
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// ------------------------------------------------
// Includes :
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var Http = require('http');
var Net = require('net');
var Dicer = require('dicer');
var SocketIO = require('socket.io');
// ------------------------------------------------
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// ------------------------------------------------
// TCP socket :
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var socket = Net.Socket();

socket.connect(srcPort, srcHost, function() {

    // Init socket IO :
    var io = SocketIO.listen(Http.createServer().listen(destPort, destHost), { log: false });

    // Init Dicer :
    var dicer = new Dicer({ boundary: srcBoundary });

    dicer.on('part', function(part) {

        var frameEncoded = '';
        part.setEncoding('base64');

        part.on('header', function(header) { });
        part.on('data', function(data) { frameEncoded += data; });
        part.on('end', function() { io.sockets.emit('image', frameEncoded); });
    });

    // Handle streams closing :
    dicer.on('finish', function() { console.log('Dicer stream finished'); });
    socket.on('close', function() { console.log('TCP socket closed'); });

    // Pipe :
    socket.pipe(dicer);
});
// ------------------------------------------------
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3°) Listen to the websocket on the client :

I will update this post if I get other solutions working (but I may go with this one).