Unity Video Streaming Server Package

Alexander Ezharjan
9th Sep, 2020

github repository

Utilization

1. Add new Texture2D in assets whit the size equal to camera resolution (example 1920 x 1080)
2. In Camera Gameobject set Target Texture to the new texture
3. In Camera Gameobject add VideoStreamingServerComponent
4. Set SourceTexture to the same camera target texture
5. Set Port to an unused port

Streaming client

In a streaming client (example VLC Media Player) set open network streaming URL to rtsp://ip:port

Build Settings

To build an Unity application add the RGBToNV12 shader to included shaders:

1. Select menu Edit > Project Settings...
2. Select Graphics tab
3. In Always Included Shaders section add new element: Video/RGBToNV12

The shader is located in tha Packages > VideoStreming Server > Shaders

RunTime Prerequisites

The H264Encoder.dll plugin must be compiled in VS 2015 x64 Release.
The H264Encode has the following dependencies:

In Windows OS:

• ole32.dll (Windows OS)
• KERNEL32.dll (Windows OS)
• MFPlat.DLL (Windows OS)

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015

• MSVCP140.dll
• VCRUNTIME140.dll

Windows SDK

• api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll

Tools

DUMPBIN

To check the dependencies use the Tool Command Prompt for VS 2019

> dumpbin /DEPENDENTS H264Encoder.dll
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.29.30138.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Dump of file H264Encoder.dll

File Type: DLL

  Image has the following dependencies:

    ole32.dll
    MSVCP140.dll
    MFPlat.DLL
    VCRUNTIME140.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
    KERNEL32.dll

  Summary

        1000 .data
        1000 .pdata
        2000 .rdata
        1000 .reloc
        1000 .rsrc
        3000 .text

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