Streaming live wih Raspberry PI Camera on a C# Application

Question

I'm trying to use a raspberry pi to guide a car from a C# Application from a computer. The raspberry and computer are booth connected to a router. What I want is to receive live streaming from raspberry camera to computer so I can control the car. I've seen how to broadcast on browser, but I want to receive the live streaming directly into my C# Application. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

I'm making some assumptions here since there's not much detail in the question, but, if you want to stream from Raspberry Pi, it's as easy as using ffmpeg. There's a thousand command line parameters, but something like this will do the trick;

ffmpeg -y -loglevel warning -f dshow -i video="screen-capture-recorder" -vf crop=690:388:136:0 -r 30 -s 962x388 -threads 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre baseline -vpre my_ffpreset -f flv rtmp:///live/myStream.sdp

See here for more docs: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

On the C# side, you just need to receive the video stream. There's quite a few options for RTMP and/or RTSP, here's one: https://code.google.com/p/rtmp-mediaplayer/ but there are many others.

Depending on what exactly you're doing with the video (overlays? vision?) you'll want to pick the right format, bitrate, and container to make processing simpler.