How to use RTSP camera as a source

• RTSP Cameras

• Using RTSP as a source

RTSP Cameras

DL Streamer pipeline server supports RTSP camera feed as input source. The doc provides details on configuring pipelines with RTSP source and also provides more resources on RTSP protocol.

Using RTSP as a source

You can either start a RTSP server to feed video or you can use RTSP stream from a camera and accordingly update the uri key in source section of request.

Note Add RTSP_CAMERA_IP=<ip_address> as environment variable in [WORKDIR]/docker/.env. This is the IP address of the RTSP camera or the system where the RTSP stream is started.

Here is a request to start default pallet defect detection pipeline using RTSP camera feed as a source. Similar to default DL Streamer pipeline server pipeline, it publishes metadata to a file /tmp/results.jsonl and sends frames over RTSP for streaming.

RTSP Stream will be accessible at rtsp://<SYSTEM_IP_ADDRESS>:8554/pallet-defect-detection.

curl localhost:8080/pipelines/user_defined_pipelines/pallet_defect_detection -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
    "source": {
        "uri": "rtsp://<ip_address>:<port>/<server_url>",
        "type": "uri"
    },
    "destination": {
        "metadata": {
            "type": "file",
            "path": "/tmp/results.jsonl",
            "format": "json-lines"
        },
        "frame": {
            "type": "rtsp",
            "path": "pallet-defect-detection"
        }
    },
    "parameters": {
        "detection-properties": {
            "model": "/home/pipeline-server/resources/models/geti/pallet_defect_detection/deployment/Detection/model/model.xml",
            "device": "CPU"
        }
    }
}'