**Streaming to Stream: Video Payload Pi Code Update**

[ShaneMG_MSGC]

Video Payload Pi Code (streaming to Stream):



It has been adjusted how your streams will be delivered to Stream. You will no longer need to create stream users and find your URLs in Stream. Instead each team will be given a unique URL and keys which allow you send the video feed to Stream. This should simplify the roll out. You will find your unique URL and key in the spreadsheet attached within the email blast.



Creating a new SD card with the streaming to Stream software:







Software Needed:



Win32DiskImager: sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

7-Zip: www.7-zip.org/download.html

SD Card Formatter: www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

Video Payload Pi Code Auto Record in 10 minute chunks:







There are two variants that can be used to stream to Stream: via ffmeg OR VLC/OBS.



Your team URL and RTMP Key is in the attached spreadsheet!

NASA Balloon Team Launch Sites and POC STR....xlsx (243.04 KB)


Streaming via ffmpeg: This should be your primary process. This method works well on any computer that has Windows 10 and not a large amount of processing power.  The i3 Insperon laptops distributed at the workshop work well with this method:  On windows 7 this process may be a little slow, but on windows 10 this works excellent.




links:
ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

command:
ffmpeg -i rtsp://192.168.1.3:8554/ -c copy -f flv - | ffmpeg -f flv -i - -c copy -f rtp_mpegts rtp://localhost:4000 -c copy -f flv rtmp://media.stream.live:1935/live/[RTMPKEYHERE]

to view using rtp://localhost:4000/
www.videolan.org/vlc/



Streaming via VLC/OBS: This should be your backup process if:     1. you are on windows 7 and the previous process didn't work well.




links:
www.videolan.org/vlc/
obsproject.com/

-PDF Documentation coming soon!-

[AZ ASCEND]

We have successfully flashed the SD card and set up the pi with the new software. What are the pi commands to stream video to VLC player?

Also, on the i3, how are we to use wi-fi to direct the video to Stream when we are connected via ethernet to the M5 to receive the video from the payload. That is, how can we have two network connections at the same time?

Thank you,
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Team
AZ ASCEND

[usc]

I flashed the new image (2017-06-09-eclipse-pi.img) onto the SD card after formatting and it turned the SD card into an "exFAT" file system. The Pi can't read this SD card/I can't get into the Pi. Mind you the new file on github is "2017-06-09-eclipse-pi.img.gz" which is not a disc image file. I deleted the "gz" and made it into a disc image file before writing. I don't know if that has an impact. Is anyone else having this issue?

[Colin White]

The file is compressed and you have to uncompress it.

[usc]

The .img file from github.com/MSU-BOREALIS/VideoStreaming is not compressed, and it is also not in the downloadable zipped folder.

[Colin White]

A file with the TGZ or GZ file extension is a GZIP Compressed Tar Archive file.

[Skylar MSGC]

There are many different types of compression: .tar, .gz, .7z, .zip, .tar.gz are just a few.

.zip is the most common for Windows machines, since this image was compiled on a linux machine it was compressed in a format that is friendly to Mac, Linux, and Windows. That said Windows will not normally uncompress this file. In the video I had 7zip installed to uncompress the file. Deleting the end part of the name will only change the name the file type is still .gz but windows will try and interpret it as a .img file. So when you flash this to the card it will not work since you skipped the part where you are suppose to uncompress the file.

[ukyeclipse]

I'm working on changing the video payload pi code. I've run into an issue with the Bitvise ssh client program when ever I try to login I receive an error message and it fails to log into the pi. Does anyone know what would be causing this error? 
   

[Skylar MSGC]

Try changing you host ip to: 192.168.1.3

You have 193.168.1.3

This should allow you to connect to the Pi

[ukyeclipse]

It appears that we have been able to get our video to stream using the rtmp, however the url to view the video on stream is not working. Are the urls supposed to be working at this point and if so what might be causing the problem. I have checked multiple times for typos in what we're entering and I can't find any.

[Skylar MSGC]

Are you trying to run ffmpeg to stream the video or are you using OBS. What are you trying to view it at, is it rtp://localhost:4000/ or do you have something different.

If you are having problems provide us with what you have entered so we can see what could possibly be wrong. Otherwise we are chasing a needle in a haystack.

[ukyeclipse]

We are using OBS. The rtmp key off the spreadsheet worked and OBS indicates that we are streaming. As to what we are viewing it at i'm not exactly sure what your asking. I'm using the url provided for Kentucky which is rtmp://rtmp.stream.live:1935/live/50cff62a-dbf9-4334-afa6-0e0ac9d8a00e. When I try to use this link to confirm that our video is streaming it does not work.

[Skylar MSGC]

What is OBS capturing, did you set up a window capture of VLC.exe? The instructions to do this are outlined in the instructional video.

Do you have VLC open, is it looking at the network stream rtsp://192.168.1.3:8554/

Can you see the video in vlc when you type in that network connection.

In OBS do you have a window capture with the target vlc.exe

when you go into setting for OBS is you stream settings to media.strean.live/live and your rtmp key in the key section?

These would be the general overview of what you should have done for trying to stream using VLC and OBS.

[deniseund]

We are having the same problem as ukyeclipse, except we are using the correct IP address and still cannot log into the pi via Bitvise. We are also unable to log in to the pi with putty- we keep getting a network connection failed fatal error. Both ubiquiti modems are on and connected, but when we type ipconfig in cmd, we only see the pc's ip address (and when we try to ping the video payload pi, it isn't found). What could be the problem?


Here is a screenshot

[Skylar MSGC]

Do you guys have a static IP on the ground station? That is a major part of being able to connect to the Pi through a ssh client.

What is the address that you see when you type in ipconfig?