It may be desirable for the frontend to receive ancillary information
over the control channel.
Such information includes but is not limited to time code metas, support
for other metas (eg custom meta) might be implemented in the future, as
well as downstream events.
This patch implements a new info message, probes buffers that arrive at
nicesink to look up timecode metas and potentially forwards them to the
consumer when the `forward-metas` property is set appropriately.
Internally, a "dye" meta is used to trace the media identifier the
packet we are about to send over relates to, as rtpfunnel bundles all
packets together.
The example frontend code also gets a minor update and now logs info
messages to the console.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1749>
1c48d7065d was mistakenly merged too
early, and there were concerns about the implementation and API design:
The fact that the frontend had to expose a text area specifically for
sending over a mix matrix, and had to manually edit in floats into the
stringified JSON was suboptimal.
Said text area was always present even when remote control was not
enabled.
The sendControlRequest API was made more complex than needed by
accepting an optional stringifier callback.
This patch addresses all those concerns:
The deserialization code in webrtcsink is now made more clever and
robust by first having it pick a numerical type to coerce to when
deserializing arrays with numbers, then making sure it doesn't allow
mixed types in arrays (or arrays of arrays as those too must share
the same inner value type).
The frontend side simply sends over strings wrapped with a request
message envelope to the backend.
The request text area is only shown when remote control is enabled.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1725>
webrtcsink was starting the negotiation process on Ready and concurrently
moving the consumer pipeline to Playing, but when answering the remote
description was set so fast that input streams were connected (and the time
format set on appsrc) before the state change to Paused had completed.
This meant gst_base_src_start was happening after that and setting the format
back to bytes, the time segment that was next coming in then caused:
basesrc gstbasesrc.c:4255:gst_base_src_push_segment:<video_0> segment format mismatched, ignore
And the consumer pipeline errored out.
The same issue existed in theory when webrtcsink was creating the offer,
but was much harder to trigger as it required that the remote answer
came in before the state change to Paused had completed.
This commit fixes the issue by simply waiting for the state to have
changed to Paused before negotiating.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1730>
This is one example of how a consumer might send over custom upstream
event requests to the producer.
As webrtcsink will deserialize numbers in priority as integers, we need
a custom stringifying function to ensure members of the matrix array are
indeed serialized with the floating point.
An optional stringifier parameter is thus added to the
sendControlRequest API.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1711>
.. and deprecate data channel navigation in favor of it.
A new property, "enable-data-channel-control" is exposed, when set to
TRUE a control data channel is offered, over which can be sent typed
upstream events.
This means further upstream events will be usable, for now only
navigation and custom upstream events are handled.
In addition, send response messages to notify the consumer of whether
its requests have been handled.
In the future this can also be extended to allow the consumer to send
queries, or seek events ..
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1711>
This commit adds support for raw payloads such as L24 audio to `webrtcsink` &
`webrtcsrc`.
Most changes take place within the `Codec` helper structure:
* A `Codec` can now advertise a depayloader. This also ensures that a format
not only can be decoded when necessary, but it can also be depayloaded in the
first place.
* It is possible to declare raw `Codec`s, meaning that their caps are compatible
with a payloader and a depayloader without the need for an encoder and decoder.
* Previous accessor `has_decoder` was renamed as `can_be_received` to account
for codecs which can be handled by an available depayloader with or without
the need for a decoder.
* New codecs were added for the following formats:
* L24, L16, L8 audio.
* RAW video.
The `webrtc-precise-sync` examples were updated to demonstrate streaming of raw
audio or video.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1501>
We can use `is_some_and(...)` instead of `map_or(false, ...)`.
Also in a few places the factory was retrieved multiple times, one time
with unwrapping and another time with handling the `None` case
correctly. Instead of unwrapping, move code to handle the `None` case.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1630>
- generate a new session id for every new client
use the session id in the resource url
- remove the producer-peer-id property in the WhipServer signaler as it
is redundant to have producer id in a session having only one producer
- read the 'producer-peer-id' property on the signaller conditionally
if it exists else use the session id as producer id
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1339>
- Add a new structure Session
- manage each producer using a session
- avoid send EOS when a session terminates, instead keep running
waiting for any new producer to connect
- Maintain a bin element per session
- each session bin encapsulates webrtcbin and the decoder if needed
as well as the parser and filter if requested by the application
(through request-encoded-filter)
- this will be helpful to cleanup the session's respective elements
when the corresponding producer terminates the session
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1339>
This commit adds an Android `webrtcsrc` based example with the following
features:
* A first view allows retrieving the producer list from the signaller (peer ids
are uuids which are too long to tap, especially using an onscreen keyboard).
* Selecting a producer opens a second view. The first available video stream is
rendered on a native Surface. All the audio streams are rendered using
`autoaudiosink`.
Available Settings:
* Signaller URI.
* A toggle to prefer hardware decoding for OPUS, otherwise the app defaults to
raising `opusdec`'s rank. Hardware decoding was moved aside since it was found
to crash the app on all tested devices (2 smartphones, 1 tv).
**Warning**: in order to ease testing, this demonstration application enables
unencrypted network communication. See `AndroidManifest.xml`.
The application uses the technologies currenlty proposed by Android Studio when
creating a new project:
* Kotlin as the default language, which is fully interoperable with Java and
uses the same SDK.
* gradle 8.6.
* kotlin dialect for gradle. The structure is mostly the same as the previously
preferred dialect, for which examples can be found online readily.
* However, JNI code generation still uses Makefiles (instead of CMake) due to
the need to call [`gstreamer-1.0.mk`] for `gstreamer_android` generation.
Note: on-going work on that front:
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/-/merge_requests/1466
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/6794
Current limitations:
* x86 support is currently discarded as `gstreamer_android` libs generation
fails (observed with `gstreamer-1.0-android-universal-1.24.3`).
* A selector could be added to let the user chose the video streams and
possibly decide whether to render all audio streams or just select one.
Nice to have:
* Support for the synchronization features of the `webrtc-precise-sync-recv`
example (NTP clock, RFC 7273).
* It could be nice to use Rust for the specific native code.
[`gstreamer-1.0.mk`]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/-/blob/main/data/ndk-build/gstreamer-1.0.mk
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1578>
