This is a proof-of-concept of the IPTV and surveillance camera software outlined in:
http://pedrocr.pt/text/a-better-base-for-opensource-iptv-tools/
The media handling stuff is written in C with gstreamer. Eventually the "porcelain" around this will be written in Ruby and Rails.
Running "rake" with no arguments should both build the C code and run the test suite. "rake build" will do just the compiling without running the test suite. Because of a few bugs found while writing this only the current gstreamer master branch will run this properly. When it's released gstreamer 1.2.3 should also do.
Right now there are three proof of concept programs. testserver is just a simplified version of "test-video" from gst-rtsp-server. Run it without arguments:
$ ./bin/testserver
stream ready at rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/test
camerasave reads from any URI (including file:// and rtsp://) and grabs any h264 stream it finds there and saves it to multiple individual Matroska files every few I-frames. Each file is a valid mkv file, playable with a regular media player. Run it as:
$ ./bin/camerasave rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/test someoutputdir
This will also create a http server to stream an mjpeg stream (http://localhost:4000/mjpeg)
filejoin reads from a set of .mkv files and constructs a single .mkv file with all the streams concatenated. It again generates a file that can be read in any media player. Run it as:
$ ./bin/filejoin somefile.mkv someoutputdir
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Pedro Côrte-Real pedro@pedrocr.net