(DEPRECATED. Please check this document for Real Time Streaming)
A server can be streaming video and a client, in this case a i.MX6 target, is receiving and decoding it. For example, a server with GStreamer and a web camera connected, can be streaming with the following command:
$ # Pipeline 1
$ gst-launch v4l2src ! 'video/x-raw-yuv, format=(fourcc)I420, width=(int)1280, height=(int)800' ! ffenc_mpeg4 ! tcpserversink host=$CLIENT_IP port=$PORT
and on the target, the client receives, decodes and display with
$ # Pipeline 2
$ gst-launch tcpclientsrc host=$SERVER_IP port=$PORT ! 'video/mpeg, width=(int)1280, height=(int)800, framerate=(fraction)10/1, mpegversion=(int)4, systemstream=(boolean)false' ! vpudec ! mfw_isink
The filter caps between the tcpclientsrc and the decoder (vpudec) depend on the sink caps coming from the server encoder (ffenc_mpeg4), so these may change depending on your needs. Running the above pipelines require the environment variables SERVER_IP, CLIENT_IP and PORT.
In case you want the i.MX6 to act as a server, just change the video source (either mfw_v4lsrc of v4l2src) and the encoder (vpuenc), so
$ # Pipeline 3
$ gst-launch v4l2src ! 'video/x-raw-yuv, format=(fourcc)I420, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, interlaced=(boolean)false, framerate=(fraction)10/1' ! vpuenc ! tcpserversink host=$CLIENT_IP port=$PORT
For testing purposes, set SERVER_IP=127.0.0.1, CLIENT_IP=127.0.0.1 and PORT=500, and run pipeline 3 and 2 in two different consoles. Check with 'top' the CPU usage and see that VPU is actually doing most of the work.
