Improve RTMP examples, amongst other things

README.md

@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ This series of docs provides a cheat sheet for Gstreamer on the command-line.
 * [List of all Gstreamer plugins](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html)
 * [Handy elements](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/basic/handy-elements.html#uridecodebin)
 
+## Other cheat sheets
+
+* http://wiki.oz9aec.net/index.php/Gstreamer_cheat_sheet
+* https://github.com/xmementoit/gstreamerCheatsheet/blob/master/README.md
+

basics.md

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ export SRC=/home/me/videos/test.mp4
 
 ### Play a video (with audio)
 
+
+
 ```
 gst-launch-1.0 -v playbin uri=file://$SRC
 ```
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ or, if you'd rather have more control of the pipeline:
 
 ```
 gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$SRC ! \
-    qtdemux name=demux  demux.audio_0 ! queue ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! \
+        qtdemux name=demux  demux.audio_0 ! queue ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! \
     autoaudiosink \
     demux.video_0 ! queue ! \
     decodebin ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! autovideosink

rtmp.md

@@ -6,30 +6,66 @@ If you need your own RTMP server, [the Nginx RTMP extension](https://github.com/
 
 ### Play an RTMP stream
 
-To play from RTMP server, at the path `/live/x`, with the server name in the environment variable `RTMP_SERVER`:
+To play from RTMP server, playbin can be used (as with files and HLS streams):
 
 ```
-gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri='rtmp://$RTMP_SERVER/live/x' ! \
+gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=$RTMP_SRC
-    videoconvert ! videorate ! videoscale ! videoconvert ! \
-    video/x-raw, format=BGRA, pixel-aspect-ratio=1/1, interlace-mode=progressive,framerate=24/1, width=640, height=360 ! \
-    autovideosink
 ```
 
-Russia Today is available over RTMP at `https://rtmp.api.rt.com/hls/rtdru360.m3u8`. So you can watch it with:
+A test RTMP stream is available at `rtmp://184.72.239.149/vod/BigBuckBunny_115k.mov` which serves as a useful example:
 
 ```
-gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri='https://rtmp.api.rt.com/hls/rtdru360.m3u8' ! \
+gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri='rtmp://184.72.239.149/vod/BigBuckBunny_115k.mov'
-    videoconvert ! videorate ! videoscale ! videoconvert ! \
-    video/x-raw, format=BGRA, pixel-aspect-ratio=1/1, interlace-mode=progressive,framerate=24/1, width=640, height=360 ! \
-    autovideosink
 ```
 
-### Stream TO an RTMP server
+Instead of using `playbin`, it's possible to get video only with `uridecodebin` then shown with `autovideosink`:
-
-At the path '/live/x', with the server name in the environment variable `RTMP_SERVER`:
 
 ```
-gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc \
+gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri=$RTMP_SRC ! autovideosink
-    is-live=true ! queue ! x264enc ! flvmux name=muxer ! \
+```
-    rtmpsink location='rtmp://$RTMP_SERVER/live/x'
+
+Or as a step further we can split out into the source and decode too. This does video:
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 rtmpsrc location=$RTMP_SRC ! decodebin ! autovideosink
+```
+
+and this does the audio:
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 rtmpsrc name=rtmpsrc location=$RTMP_SRC ! decodebin ! \
+queue ! audioconvert ! autoaudiosink
+```
+
+We can vget flvdemux to pull out the audio:
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 rtmpsrc location=$RTMP_SRC ! \
+    flvdemux name=t  t.audio ! decodebin ! autoaudiosink
+```
+
+Incidentally, all of these work with a direct flv file:
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location="/Users/clarkm22/workspace/silver/assets/test.flv" ! \
+    flvdemux name=t  t.audio ! decodebin ! autoaudiosink
+```
+
+If you want to use `flvdemux` to do the video, you need to capture the audio too or else it will fail. This example puts it in `fakesink` which is basically discarding it:
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 rtmpsrc location="$RTMP_SRC" ! \
+    flvdemux name=demux \
+    demux.audio ! queue ! decodebin ! fakesink \
+    demux.video ! queue ! decodebin ! autovideosink
+```
+
+You could then use this to capture the RTMP as an MP4, e.g.
+
+```
+gst-launch-1.0 -e rtmpsrc location="$RTMP_SRC" ! \
+    flvdemux name=demux \
+    demux.audio ! queue ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! faac bitrate=32000 ! mux. \
+    demux.video ! queue ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420 ! x264enc speed-preset=superfast tune=zerolatency psy-tune=grain sync-lookahead=5 bitrate=480 key-int-max=50 ref=2  ! mux. \
+    mp4mux name=mux ! filesink location="out.mp4"
 ```

test_streams.md

@@ -16,14 +16,15 @@ There are multiple test patterns available, such as
 | Pattern        | Example           |
 | ------------- |:-------------:|
 | `videotestsrc pattern=snow`  | ![](images/test_snow.png) |
-| `videotestsrc pattern=red` (and blue and green) | ![](images/test_red.png) |
+| `videotestsrc pattern=red` (and blue, green, white and black) | ![](images/test_red.png) |
 | `videotestsrc pattern=pinwheel` | ![](images/test_pinwheel.png) |
 | `videotestsrc pattern=smpte100` (color test bars) | ![](images/test_smpte100.png) |
 | `videotestsrc pattern=colors` | ![](images/test_colors.png) |
 
 For the full list of patterns, see https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-plugins/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-videotestsrc.html
 
-### Listen to a test audio (beep)
+
+### Listen to a test audio (beep)
 
 ```
 gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! autoaudiosink