Python OpenCV webcam sending frames through TCP socket.
- A software structure within a network node
- Serves as an endpoint to send & receive
- A combination of protocpl type, IP address and Port number for data communication
In standard interent protocols like TCP and UDP, socket address is the combination of:
socket address = (IP address, port number)
Depending on the operating system, you can easily find the IP address of your machine. Go to the terminal window and run this command:
ipconfig getifaddr en0
ifconfig
For Windows users. The required IP address will show against IPv4 Address.
For Linux and Ubuntu users. The required IP address will be for Wifi LAN (inet).
- Server creates socket on startup
- May serve several clients concurrently
- A client should know the server IP and port
- With OpenCV get video frames of webcam
- With pickle serialize frame to byte data
- Pack each frame data using struct module
- Send data to client and display frame
- Receive packets and append them to data
- Unpack the data using struct module
- Load the frame using pickle
- Display the frame at client side
you can create a new project based on this repo by doing the following:
git clone https://github.com/1010code/python-webcam-socket-streaming.git
When that's done, install the project dependencies.
pip install -r requirements.txt
open terminal and execute server.py. And we'll create TCP socket and listening 8485 port.
python server.py
After running the server.py, copy paste the IP and PORT to client.py. After doing that, then start client.
python client.py
- PC 1: run server.py
- PC 1: run client.py
- PC 1: run server.ipynb
- PC 1: run client.py
- PC 1: run server.ipynb
- PC 2: run client.py
