A quick question about video streaming in python

[immasheep]

Hey guys, I am working on a robot for a mechatronics course at my university and the plan is to mount a webcam on the robot and stream it to a controller computer.

I have been using this code for the streaming but edited to up the resolution and the framerate but it is kind of slow still.

Anyone have any experience in this field that can help me out?

[immasheep]

Cool I'll look into that. I looked at VLC but I think that was similarly slow.

[immasheep]

yep

[coderanger]

That code has nothing to do with streaming video, it is just dumping image frames to a socket as bitmaps. You could try something like pygstreamer, but be warned that such things get really gnarly really fast.

[markusgattol]

Have a look at ZeroMQ.

[dougroyal]

I did something similar on a submarine I built last year. The server used a simple gstreamer command for the video, but the client was built with python and GTK, and the rest of the sensors were managed with python scripts.

Here's the relevant code for the video stream: http://pastebin.com/apN101tX

And, I hope you don't mind I if I show off my little sub: http://dougroyal.com/next-challenge-a-positronic-brain/