Install GStreamer

Note

This step is optional if using QGroundControl

Windows

Download the gstreamer framework from here: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/pkg/windows. The recommended version is 1.18.1.

Downloads:

• Make sure to download the MinGW version of Gstreamer

Important

Gstreamer would automatically install in the D drive if you have more than one drive on your PC. You can change it to the C drive when you do custom installation.

If you install it on the D drive, just keep note of that when you set up your environment variables below.

If in doubt of which install to use, download the 64-bit version, as this is more common.

Note

Make sure you update the PATH in Environment Variable after installing it on Windows.

Environment Variable Setup

1. Right-click the Windows icon in the taskbar and select System

2. Under Related Settings, select Advanced System Settings

3. Select Environment Variables

4. Highlight the variable Path by clicking on it and then click ‘Edit…’

5. A new window should pop up and you want to click on New and add a path to your bin folder to the list. In this case, it’s C:\gstreamer\1.0\mingw_x86_64\bin

After that, click OK on both windows and you should be ready to go!

To test the gstreamer setup, open CMD and run the following:

gst-launch-1.0 --version

This should result in an output similar to:

gst-launch-1.0 version 1.16.2
GStreamer 1.16.2
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer1.0

Gstreamer Stream Input Pipeline for a terminal:

For example: your video is streaming on port 5600:

gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc port=5600 ! application/x-rtp,media=(string)video,clock-rate=(int)90000,encoding-name=(string)H264 ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 output-corrupt=false ! videoconvert ! autovideosink

Gstreamer Stream Input Pipeline for OBS

For example: your video is streaming on port 5600:

udpsrc port=5600 ! application/x-rtp,media=(string)video,clock-rate=(int)90000,encoding-name=(string)H264 ! rtph264depay ! avdec_h264 output-corrupt=false ! videoconvert ! video.