WIPVideo¶

Notes while video is a work in progress. Repository: http://devel.ag-projects.com/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=saul/python-sipsimple-video;a=summary

Dependencies¶

The following dependencies are required to build PJSIP with video support (including H264)

• SDL 2
• ffmpeg (libavformat, libswscale, libavcodec, libavutil)
• libx264

Versions I have tried:

• SDL (2.0.0-7655)
• ffmpeg (2.0 release)
• libx264 (snapshot-20130806-2245-stable)

Patches¶

If the above versions are used, PJSIP needs to be patched with the attached patch (avcodec.diff) or it won't compile. This does not occur when compiling it against the latest library versions on Debian unstable. No longer needed.

Compiling dependencies¶

All dependencies will be compiled to a directory in the user's HOME directory:

export MY_VIDEO_LIBS=$HOME/work/ag-projects/video/local

libx264¶

./configure --enable-shared --disable-avs --disable-swscale --disable-lavf --disable-ffms --disable-gpac --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS
make
make install

# If a 32bit build is wanted, then run this configure instead:
./configure --host=i386-apple-darwin --enable-shared --disable-avs --disable-swscale --disable-lavf --disable-ffms --disable-gpac --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS

ffmpeg¶

# Some exports
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS/lib/pkgconfig

./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-memalign-hack --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS --extra-cflags="`pkg-config --cflags x264`" --extra-ldflags="`pkg-config --libs x264`" 
make
make install

# If a 32bit build is wanted do:
./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-memalign-hack --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS --extra-cflags="`pkg-config --cflags x264`" --extra-ldflags="`pkg-config --libs x264`" --cc="gcc -m32" --disable-asm
# TODO: I WANT MY ASM

SDL¶

./configure --disable-audio --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS
make
make install

# If a 32bit build is wanted:
CFLAGS="-arch i386" CXXFLAGS="-arch i386" LDFLAGS="-arch i386" ./configure --disable-audio --prefix=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS

Compiling PJSIP (pjsua, for testing)¶

svn co http://svn.pjsip.org/repos/pjproject/trunk pjsip
cd pjsip
echo "#define PJMEDIA_HAS_VIDEO 1" > pjlib/include/pj/config_site.h
./configure --with-sdl=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS --with-ffmpeg=$MY_VIDEO_LIBS
make dep
make
# pjsua will be located in pjsip-apps/bin/

Proposed API¶

API for video components is based on 2 different types of video capable entities:

• VideoProducer: a source for video data, for example a video camera or a remote video stream
• VideoConsumer: a sink or destination for video data, for example a video rendering window

Data flow¶

Data flow works in pull fashion, that is, a producer doesn't start to produce data until there is a consumer which will consume it.

VideoProducer¶

Produces video data.

Internal API:

• _add_consumer: attach a consumer, called by the consumer
• _remove_consumer: detach a consumer from a producer, called by the consumer

Public API:

• start: start producing video as soon as a consumer is attached
• stop: immediately stop producing data
• close: remove all consumers and stop producing video data
• producer_port: pointer to the pjmedia_port object

VideoConsumer¶

Consumes video data.

Internal API:

• _start: start consuming video data
• _stop: stop consuming video data

Public API:

• attach: tie this consumer to a producer, in order to render the video data generated by the producer
• detach: untie this consumer from a producer
• consumer_port: pointer to the pjmedia_port object

Producer and consumer objects¶

• VideoDevice: Producer, acquires video from a user camera.
• VideoWindow: Consumer, renders video in an SDL window. Extra methods: show/hide. Properties: native_handle, size.

• LocalVideoStream: Consumer, takes video from a VideoDevice and sends it to the remote party.
• RemoteVideoStream: Producer, produces video sent by the remote party.

These are just theoretical objects, won't be implemented in the first go.

• VideoFileWriter: Consumer, saves incoming video data to a video file.
• VideoFilePlayer: Producer, produces video data out of a video file.

• VideoMixer: Producer/Consumer, consumes video from multiple sources and produces aggregated video data.

NOTE: pjsip does have a AVI file player, which also seems to support audio.