High-level RTSP multimedia streaming library, in Rust
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rtcp recently had an accidental semver break, so this fixes #8. I also don't like that newer versions depend on several unnecessary crates including tokio. retina also depends on tokio, but in the future I want it to be IO library-agnostic. I'm moving to v0.1.0 so I *can* release versions that claim semver compatibility. There are still plenty of API changes to make but also likely upcoming camera compatibility changes that won't break anything. |
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retina
High-level RTSP multimedia streaming library, in Rust. Good support for ONVIF RTSP/1.0 IP surveillance cameras, as needed by Moonfire NVR. Works around brokenness in cheap closed-source cameras.
Progress:
- client support
- digest authentication.
- RTP over TCP via RTSP interleaved channels.
- RTP over UDP.
- RTSP/1.0.
- RTSP/2.0.
- SRTP.
- ONVIF backchannel support (for sending audio).
- ONVIF replay mode.
- receiving RTCP Sender Reports (currently only uses the timestamp)
- sending RTCP Receiver Reports
- server support
- I/O modes
- async with tokio
- async-std. (Most of the crate's code is independent of the async library, so I don't expect this would be too hard to add.)
- synchronous with std only
- codec depacketization
- uniform, documented API. (Currently haphazard in terms of naming, what fields are exposed directly vs use an accessors, etc.)
- quality errors
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- detailed error description text.
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- programmatically inspectable error type.
- good functional testing coverage. (Currently lightly / unevenly tested.) Most depacketizers have no tests.)
- fuzz testing. (In progress.)
- benchmark
Currently very unstable: expect breaking API changes at every release as I work through items above.
Help welcome!
Getting started
Try the mp4
example. It streams from an RTSP server to a .mp4
file until
you hit ctrl-C.
$ cargo run --example client mp4 --url rtsp://ip.address.goes.here/ --username admin --password test out.mp4
...
^C
Acknowledgements
This builds on the whole Rust ecosystem. A couple folks have been especially helpful:
- Sebastian Dröge, author of
rtsp-types
- David Holroyd, author of
h264-reader
Why "retina"?
It's a working name. Other ideas welcome. I started by looking at dictionary words with the letters R, T, S, and P in order and picking out ones related to video:
$ egrep '^r.*t.*s.*p' /usr/share/dict/words' |
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retinoscope | close but too long, thus retina |
retrospect | good name for an NVR, but I already picked Moonfire |
rotascope | misspelling of "rotascope" (animation tool) or archaic name for "gyroscope"? |
License
Your choice of MIT or Apache; see LICENSE-MIT.txt or LICENSE-APACHE, respectively.