/kinesis-video-producer

Kinesis Video Producer with Gstreamer dockerized plugin

Primary LanguageDockerfileGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

VIDEO on Kinesis with Gstreamer

Pre-requisites:

  1. Following this download the docker image:
docker pull 546150905175.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-producer-sdk-cpp-amazon-linux:latest

Without Dockerfile:

  1. Run the image with:
docker run -it --network="host" --device=/dev/video0 546150905175
.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-producer-sdk-cpp-amazon-linux /bin/bash
  1. In the container, set the environment variables using the following command:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/awssdk/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-cpp/kinesis-video-native-build/downloads/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/opt/awssdk/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-cpp/kinesis-video-native-build/downloads/local/bin:$PATH
export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/opt/awssdk/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-producer-sdk-cpp/kinesis-video-native-build/downloads/local/lib:$GST_PLUGIN_PATH
  1. Install brew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

And after the installation execute the suggested 3 commands!!!

  1. Install gstream plugins (good and ugly):
brew install gst-plugins-good

brew install gst-plugins-ugly
  1. Run the following command to start the stream (webcam is /dev/video0):
gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src do-timestamp=TRUE device=/dev/video0 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! x264enc  bframes=0 key-int-max=45 bitrate=500 ! video/x-h264,stream-format=avc,alignment=au,profile=baseline ! kvssink stream-name="YOUR_STREAM_NAME" storage-size=512 access-key="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" secret-key="YOUR_SECRET" aws-region="YOUR_REGION"
  1. To stop the stream, press Ctrl+C

With Dockerfile:

  1. Following this download the docker image:
docker pull 546150905175.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-producer-sdk-cpp-amazon-linux:latest
  1. Build the image with:
docker build -t kinesis-video-producer .
  1. Run the image with:
docker run -it --network="host" --device=/dev/video0 kinesis-video-producer /bin/bash
  1. In the container, launch the video stream (from webcam to Kinesis):
gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src do-timestamp=TRUE device=/dev/video0 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420,width=640,height=480,framerate=30/1 ! x264enc  bframes=0 key-int-max=45 bitrate=500 ! video/x-h264,stream-format=avc,alignment=au,profile=baseline ! kvssink stream-name="YOUR_STREAM_NAME" storage-size=512 access-key="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" secret-key="YOUR_SECRET" aws-region="YOUR_REGION"