gstreamer-send-offer

gstreamer-send-offer

gstreamer-send-offer is a simple application that shows how to send video using Pion WebRTC and GStreamer. This is meant to be used with gstreamer-receive, if you want to send via to your browser try gstreamer-send

Instructions

Install GStreamer

This example requires you have GStreamer installed, these are the supported platforms

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

Windows MinGW64/MSYS2

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gstreamer mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-libav mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-plugins-good mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-plugins-bad mingw-w64-x86_64-gst-plugins-ugly

macOS

brew install gst-plugins-good pkg-config && export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig

Run gstreamer-send-offer and make an offer to gstreamer-receive via stdin

go run gstreamer-send-offer/*.go | go run gstreamer-receive/*.go

post the answer from gstreamer-receive back to gstreamer-send-offer

You will see a base64 SDP printed to your console. You now need to communicate this back to gstreamer-send-offer this can be done via a HTTP endpoint

curl localhost:8080/sdp -d "BASE_64_SDP"

enjoy your video!

A video should start playing via GStreamer and will continue playing until you close the application.

Congrats, you have used Pion WebRTC! Now start building something cool

Customizing your video or audio

gstreamer-send-offer also accepts the command line arguments -video-src and -audio-src allowing you to provide custom inputs.

When prototyping with GStreamer it is highly recommended that you enable debug output, this is done by setting the GST_DEBUG enviroment variable. You can read about that here a good default value is GST_DEBUG=*:3

You can also prototype a GStreamer pipeline by using gst-launch-1.0 to see how things look before trying them with gstreamer-send for the examples below you also may need additional setup to enable extra video codecs like H264. The output from GST_DEBUG should give you hints

These pipelines work on Linux, they may have issues on other platforms. We would love PRs for more example pipelines that people find helpful!

• a webcam, with computer generated audio.

  gstreamer-send-offer -video-src "autovideosrc ! video/x-raw, width=320, height=240 ! videoconvert ! queue"

• a pre-recorded video, sintel.mkv is available here

  gstreamer-send-offer -video-src "uridecodebin uri=file:///tmp/sintel.mkv ! videoscale ! video/x-raw, width=320, height=240 ! queue " -audio-src "uridecodebin uri=file:///tmp/sintel.mkv ! queue ! audioconvert"