fyeh / rtspsource

A DirectShow Source Filter that uses RTSP to get video streams

RTSPSource

Description

A DirectShow Source Filter that uses RTSP to get video streams

References & Attribution

This project contains snapshots of several other open source libraries or projects 
that are included to ensure that the correct versions of these external libraries
are used:

LiveProxy - https://github.com/dhorth/LiveProxy

ffMpeg - http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
  Codecs used by the Filter
  
live555 - http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/
  Support for RTSP

Directshowlib - http://directshownet.sourceforge.net/
    .NET access to DirectShow Used by Samples
	
Log4net - http://logging.apache.org/log4net/
    Logging libraries Used by Samples
	
This project is based on the vsm7dsf project at https://github.com/fyeh/vsm7dsf but has been modified to work with Generic RTSP sources

Microsoft pre-req's

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4

.NET 4

Project Contents

PushSource - The Actual DirectShow Filter.

HelperLib - C# managed library. Used to integrate the managed Cisco VSM SDK with the unmanaged direct show filter.

SampleGrabber - C# Application useful for testing the DSF.

Building

Build LiveProxy first then build RTSPSource. Do this for whichever configuration (Debug or Release) you are building for. IE build Liveproxy for Debug then RTSPSource for Debug. When you are ready to release, build LiveProxy for Release then RTSPSource for Release.

Using

After a successful build, the RTSPSource.ax filter will be registered on the system. Any program that uses DirectShow to render a URL in the specified format will load the filter.

URL should be in the format:

rtspsource://&Width=&Height=

Note that Width and Height are required and must match the width and height of the stream specified.

EG: is you would normally used an RTSP URL of "rtsp://192.168.1.1/stream1" to play an RTSP stream from the video source, the URL to invoke this source filter would be "rtspsource://192.168.1.1/stream1&width=704&height=480".

rtspsource's Issues

Problems building the solution

How to exactly build the solution using Visual Studio? I get a lot of errors about missing header files etc.

Filter crash in graphedit and graphstudio

Thank you in advance for this great code. I successfully build the filter according to your guide and register it. And then, I also successfully test the filter using the sample grabber program. But when I try to test the filter in the graphedit or graphstudio, it crashes.

Crashes

When I try to add RTSP source to graphedt.exe then it crashes. I tried to create instance of source through Activator in Visual Studio and it crashes with stack overflow exception. My goal is to use RTSP source with a custom source filter.

SampleGrabber.log.config is invalid

There's string "hit" before XML starts.