Video Streamer

Video streamer is a client-server application for streaming videos. It uses rtsp with gstreamer and libvlc for video processing and playing. It is written in Python3 using PySide2 Qt5 bindings.

Applications

Video Streamer

This application is a video client playing videos from remote server. It works on Windows, Linux and MacOS. It supports listing available videos through directory explorer and playing those videos.

System Dependencies

libvlc - for playing video

Video Streamer Server

This application is a server for video streaming. It is a linux-only console application capable of handling multiple clients.

System Dependencies

dbus - for internal communication (used on most Linux distributions by default) mediainfo - for querying video file information gstreamer - hosting rtsp video server and doing all video processing

Video Streamer Setter

This is a linux-only console application capable of setting additional video metadata for video files communicating with server via dbus. It can be used only on server machine - no remote acces.

System Dependencies

dbus - same purpose as in Video Streamer Server

Video and audio support

There are two containers supported - MP4 and MKV. Video codec and audio codec have to be H264 and AAC.

Installation

This application can be installed with pip tool from PyPi using command:

pip3 install video-streamer

Alternatively you can install it manually with:

git clone https://github.com/artudi54/video-streamer
cd video-streamer
python3 setup.py install

Running

Installation adds scripts to binary folders, they are available with names: video_streamer.py, video_streamer_server.py of video_streamer_setter.py.

About

Project was created by Artur Pietrzyk and Tomasz Kolbusz as a part of Python university course.