pylive555

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Mike McCandless, mikemccand at gmail.com

This contains a small Python wrapper around the Live555 Streaming Media APIs, so that you can load video frames. It only wraps a tiny, tiny subset of all of Live555's APIs, specifically the APIs necessary to pull frames via RTSP/RTP from an IP camera.

I've only tested on Linux with Python 3, with the surprisingly excellent Lorex LNB2151/LNB2153 cameras, with H264 video. Please report back if you succeed with other cameras.

INSTRUCTIONS:

• First, download and compile/install the Live555 library from http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public, and unzip/tar it and run:

  • ./genMakefiles linux
  • export CPPFLAGS=-fPIC CFLAGS=-fPIC
  • make
  • [optional: make install]

• If you unzip/tar'd Live555 in this directory (the pylive555 checkout), to the sub-directory "live", then you can skip this step; otherwise, edit INSTALL_DIR in setup.py to point the live headers and libraries.

• Build the python bindings: python3 setup.py build; make sure there are no errors.

• Copy the resulting .so (from build/lib/*.so) to somewhere onto your PYTHONPATH.

• Run the example

  python3 example.py 10.17.4.118 1 10 out.264

  That will record 10 seconds of H264 video from the camera at 10.17.4.118, channel 1, saving it to the file out.264.