debian-python-live555

Giuseppe De Marco, demarcog83 at gmail.com

forked from
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/live555/1.0
Mike McCandless, mikemccand at gmail.com

This contains a small Python3 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.

Mike McCandless tested on Linux with the surprisingly excellent Lorex LNB2151/LNB2153 cameras, with H264 video.
I only tested with ipcam Maygion h264, not so surprising as camera but works.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. First install the Live555 library from Debian repository
   aptitude install livemedia-utils liblivemedia-dev python3 python3-dev python3-pip

2. Download/clone this repo

3. then
   python3 setup.py build python3 setup.py install

4. Run the example (some costants should be configured in example.py)
   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.

Some alternative methods with live555 and ffmpeg

This forge two files: video-H264-1 and audio-PCMU-2
openRTSP rtsp://admin:[email protected]:80

Then convert it in a viewable format
...only video
ffmpeg -i video-H264-1 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -map 0:0 merged.mp4

... or video and audio
ffmpeg -i video-H264-1 -i audio-PCMU-2 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 merged.mp4

...With vlc (see python-vlc for python integration)

vlc -I dummy rtsp://admin:[email protected]:80 --sout=file/ts:mystream.mpg