ustreamer VS MJPG-streamer

FYI until recently this was known as 'rtsp-simple-server', but it outgrew simply being a RTSP server so it was rebranded. It is commonly used in the 3D printing community for serving webcams attached to printers along with ustreamer (https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer).

uStreamer is far superior to the mjpgstreamer utility that nearly everyone uses. It supports the Pi's OMX media encoder, so you can get reasonable quality with low CPU usage.

I've been in the same situation as you and have been looking into https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer as an alternative to mpjg-streamer under Raspian Bullseye with the unicam driver and the Media Controller API framework.

Maybe look at https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

...the documentation includes an example for the rPi camera as well as simple steps for making it a service.

I've done work before where we stream USB cameras via mjpg using https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

Granted this project looks like a lot more streamlined.

2. https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer/

mjpg-streamer uses MMAL to access the Raspberry Pi Camera data, but that's not implemented on ARM 64-bit Linux.

cd ~ sudo apt-get install cmake libjpeg62-turbo-dev:armhf libjpeg62-turbo-dev imagemagick ffmpeg libv4l-dev cmake git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer.git cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. make sudo make install

I think I was able to solve my own issue. I'm now using https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer to start a stream. It creates a minimal web interface at http://pi-address:8080/, and the path /?action=stream can be accessed from MotionEye.

I need to stream all three of them to a Windows computer, so the maximum bandwidth is about 100mbit. I have tried "motion", but the performance is abysmal. I get not more that one frame per second and the latency is 3s. I used https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer with one camera. Its super fluid with a latency of maybe 200ms, and full 30fps. But the stream takes 60mbit/s bandwidth so it is impossible to use all three cameras. I tried changing the jpg quality but mjpg-streamer crashes.

Thanks for your interest! I will opensource this project soon, but in case you want to start off now, here's some resources I used: - MJPG-Streamer https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer - .NET 6, targeting Linux (tutorial:) - dotnet package on linux - My custom designed case (beta!): Bottom part - Top part

Have you looked into mjpg-streamer (or other forks, this was the first Google result)