Basic questions about HTTP / TCP

[themanonthemoon]

Hello!

I am just getting into the world of networking/protocols/streaming and could
use some clarifying answers.

1. Why is there no simple way to setup an http server in a similar way to
using a tcpserversink or a udpsink? If I need to send a video to an http
server how would I do this?

2. What is actually happening under the hood when I use a tcpserversink? If
I use this sink, I can view the video in an html5 video element in my
browser. Doesn't this mean somewhere along the line it is using an http
protocol?

Thanks in advance.




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[Nicolas Dufresne-5]

Le lun. 17 sept. 2018 04 h 13, themanonthemoon <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Hello!

I am just getting into the world of networking/protocols/streaming and could
use some clarifying answers.

1. Why is there no simple way to setup an http server in a similar way to
using a tcpserversink or a udpsink? If I need to send a video to an http
server how would I do this?

If you are serving files, you don't need GStreamer. If you want to serve streams, you can use libsoup, and giosink. You could also write an element for that, but I guess it's not very flexible and won't adapt to all use cases.

2. What is actually happening under the hood when I use a tcpserversink? If
I use this sink, I can view the video in an html5 video element in my
browser. Doesn't this mean somewhere along the line it is using an http
protocol?

I am very surprised you managed to get anything working in a video tag using tcpserversink.

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[themanonthemoon]

Thanks for the reply. I am indeed serving streams.

I also thought it was weird I was able to open tcpserversink streams in my
browser with only an html5 video tag. I was hoping to figure out the
underlying protocol for benchmarking purposes.





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[Krutskikh Ivan]

I have a working solution which streams video from ip and web cams using http. I used basehttpserver from standart python library and nginx for load balansing. Gstreamer  pipeline looks like: rtsp- mpegtsmux - multisocket sink. You can link me directly if you want details.

пн, 17 сент. 2018 г. в 19:29, themanonthemoon <[hidden email]>:

Thanks for the reply. I am indeed serving streams.

I also thought it was weird I was able to open tcpserversink streams in my
browser with only an html5 video tag. I was hoping to figure out the
underlying protocol for benchmarking purposes.





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