Video mixer

Introduction

Video mixer is a small daemon written in c++. It combines multiple video streams into one. For example, four input streams stm1, stm2, stm3, stm4 may be combined into one who looks like:

+----------------+
| +----+  +----+ |
| |stm1|  |stm2| |
| +----+  +----+ |
|                |
| +----+  +----+ |
| |stm3|  |stm4| |
| +----+  +----+ |
+----------------+

May be used with (but not limited to) gst-streaming-server.

Requirements

• Qt 5.0.2 or higher;
• GStreamer 1.6 or higher;
• QtGstreamer 1.2 or higher;

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

• Build dependecies

    sudo apt install -y lsb-release debhelper fakeroot libboost-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev \
      libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libqt5gstreamer-dev qttools5-dev-tools qt5-default
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    qmake video-mixer.pro
    make
    sudo make install
  

• Create Package

    cp docs/* debian/
    dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc -I.git -I*.yml -rfakeroot
  

SUSE/Open SUSE

• Build dependecies

    sudo install -y lsb-release rpm-build make libqt5-linguist libqt5-qtbase-devel gstreamer-plugins-qt5-devel
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    qmake-qt5 video-mixer.pro
    make
    sudo make install
  

• Create Package

    tar czf ../video-mixer.tar.gz --exclude=debian --exclude=*.yml *
    rpmbuild -ta ../video-mixer.tar.gz
  

CentOS

• Build dependecies

    sudo yum install -y redhat-lsb rpm-build git make cmake gcc-c++ boost-devel \
      gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel gstreamer1-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-linguist
  

• Build 3-rd party libraries

    # qt-gstreamer
    git clone https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/qt-gstreamer.git
    cd qt-gstreamer
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -Wno-dev .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DQT_VERSION=5
    sudo cmake --build . --target install
    cd ../..
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    qmake-qt5 video-mixer.pro
    make
    sudo make install
  

• Create Package

    tar czf ../video-mixer.tar.gz --exclude=debian --exclude=qt-gstreamer --exclude=*.yml *
    rpmbuild -ta ../video-mixer.tar.gz
  

Fedora

• Build dependecies

    sudo dnf install -y redhat-lsb rpm-build make gcc-c++ gstreamer1-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-gstreamer-devel qt5-linguist
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    qmake-qt5 video-mixer.pro
    make
    sudo make install
  

• Create Package

    tar czf ../video-mixer.tar.gz --exclude=debian --exclude=*.yml *
    rpmbuild -ta ../video-mixer.tar.gz
  

Mageia

• Build dependecies

    sudo dnf install -y lsb-release rpm-build git make cmake gcc-c++ \
      qttools5 lib64qt5-gstreamer-devel lib64boost-devel \
      lib64gstreamer1.0-devel lib64gstreamer-plugins-base1.0-devel lib64qt5base5-devel
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    qmake-qt5 video-mixer.pro
    make
    sudo make install
  

• Create Package

    tar czf ../video-mixer.tar.gz --exclude=cache* --exclude=debian --exclude=*.yml * && rpmbuild -ta ../video-mixer.tar.gz
    rpmbuild -ta ../video-mixer.tar.gz
  

Windows (Visual Studio)

• Build dependecies

  • CMake
  • WiX Toolset
  • pkg-config
  • GStreamer, GStreamer-sdk
  • Boost
  • Qt MSVC
  • QtGStreamer

• Build 3-rd party libraries

    # QtGStreamer
    set BOOST_DIR=<the path to boost headers>
    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake -Wno-dev .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\usr -DQT_VERSION=5 -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=%BOOST_DIR% -G "Visual Studio <version>"
    cmake --build . --target install
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    lrelease-qt5 *.ts
    qmake-qt5 INCLUDEDIR+=%BOOST_DIR%
    nmake -f Makefile.Release
  

• Create Package

    copy \usr\bin\*.dll release\
    copy <the path to qt folder>\bin\*.dll Release\
    xcopy /s <the path to qt folder>\plugins Release\
  
    set QT_RUNTIME=QtRuntime32.wxi
    wix\build.cmd
  

Note that both the GStreamer & Qt must be built with exactly the same version of the MSVC. For example, if GStreamer is build with MSVC 2010, the Qt version should must be any from 5.0 till 5.5.

Windows (MinGW)

• Build dependecies

  • CMake
  • WiX Toolset
  • GStreamer, GStreamer-sdk
  • Boost
  • Qt 5.0.2 MinGW
  • QtGStreamer

• Build 3-rd party libraries

    # QtGStreamer
    set BOOST_DIR=<the path to boost headers>
    cmake -Wno-dev .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\usr -DQT_VERSION=5 -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=%BOOST_DIR% -G "MinGW Makefiles"
    cmake --build . --target install
  

• Make video-mixer from the source

    lrelease-qt5 *.ts
    qmake-qt5 INCLUDEDIR+=%BOOST_DIR%
    min32gw-make -f Makefile.Release
  

• Create Package

    copy \usr\bin\*.dll release\
    copy C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\bin\*.dll Release\
    xcopy /s C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\plugins Release\
  
    set QT_RUNTIME=qt-5.0.2_mingw-4.7.wxi
    wix\build.cmd
  

Note that both the GStreamer & Qt must be built with exactly the same version of the GCC. For example, if GStreamer is build with GCC 4.7.3, the Qt version should must be 5.0.