Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2022-02-08
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
h264_video_encoder 1.1.4

README

h264_video_encoder

Overview

This package provides a ROS Node that will encode a stream of images into an H264 video stream.

Keywords: ROS, AWS, Kinesis

License

The source code is released under LGPL 2.1. However, this package uses h264_encoder_core which incorporates several different encoding components which may further restrict the license. By default, x264 is used for software encoding, thereby applying GPL to all of h264_video_encoder.

Author: AWS RoboMaker
Affiliation: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

RoboMaker cloud extensions rely on third-party software licensed under open-source licenses and are provided for demonstration purposes only. Incorporation or use of RoboMaker cloud extensions in connection with your production workloads or commercial product(s) or devices may affect your legal rights or obligations under the applicable open-source licenses. AWS does not provide support for this cloud extension. You are solely responsible for how you configure, deploy, and maintain this cloud extension in your workloads or commercial product(s) or devices.

Supported ROS Distributions

  • Kinetic
  • Melodic

Installation

Building from Source

To build from source you'll need to create a new workspace, clone and checkout the latest release branch of this repository, install all the dependencies, and compile. If you need the latest development features you can clone from the master branch instead of the latest release branch. While we guarantee the release branches are stable, the master should be considered to have an unstable build due to ongoing development.

  • Install build tool: please refer to colcon installation guide

  • Create a ROS workspace and a source directory

    mkdir -p ~/ros-workspace/src
    
  • Clone the package into the source directory .

    cd ~/ros-workspace/src
    git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git -b release-latest
    
  • Install dependencies

    cd ~/ros-workspace 
    sudo apt-get update && rosdep update
    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
    

Note: If building the master branch instead of a release branch you may need to also checkout and build the master branches of the packages this package depends on.

  • Build the packages

    cd ~/ros-workspace && colcon build
    
  • Configure ROS library Path

    source ~/ros-workspace/install/setup.bash
    
  • Build and run the unit tests

    colcon build --packages-select h264_video_encoder --cmake-target tests
    colcon test --packages-select h264_video_encoder h264_encoder_core && colcon test-results --all
    

Building on Cloud9 - Cross Compilation

  • In RoboMaker's Cloud9, start with an empty workspace and in the Cloud9 console:

    # build docker image cd /opt/robomaker/cross-compilation-dockerfile/ sudo bin/build_image.bash # this step will take a while

    # create workspace mkdir -p ~/environment/robot_ws/src cd ~/environment/robot_ws/src git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-common.git git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git

    # run docker image cd .. sudo docker run -v $(pwd):/ws -it ros-cross-compile:armhf

  • Now you're inside the cross-compilation docker container

    # build the workspace cd ws apt update rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y # this step will take a while colcon build --build-base armhf_build --install-base armhf_install colcon bundle --build-base armhf_build --install-base armhf_install --bundle-base armhf_bundle --apt-sources-list /opt/cross/apt-sources.yaml # this step will take a while exit

  • Now you're oustide the cross-compilation docker container

    # for more on copying s3 buckets see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/cp.html aws s3 cp armhf_bundle/output.tar.gz s3:///h264_video_encoder.armhf.tar

Launch Files

A launch file called h264_video_encoder.launch is included in this package. The launch file uses the following arguments:

Arg Name Description
node_name (optional) The name the H264 encoder node should be launched with. If not provided, the node name will default to h264_video_encoder
config_file (optional) A path to a rosparam config file.

An example launch file called sample_application.launch is included in this project that gives an example of how you can include this node in your project and provide it with arguments.

Usage

Running the node

To launch the H264 encoder node, you can run the following command:

roslaunch h264_video_encoder sample_application.launch

Configuration File and Parameters

An example configuration file called sample_configuration.yaml is provided for running the H264 encoder node on a Raspberry Pi based system. When the parameters are absent in the ROS parameter server, default values are used, thus all parameters are optional. See table below for details.

Parameter Name Description Type
queue_size (optional) The maximum number of incoming and outgoing messages to be queued towards the subscribed and publishing topics. integer
output_width (optional) The desired width (in pixels) of each frame in the encoded video output. integer
output_height (optional) The desired height (in pixels) of each frame in the encoded video output. integer
fps_numerator (optional) The desired frames per second (the numerator portion when expressing FPS as a rational number) for the encoded video output. integer
fps_denominator (optional) The desired frames per second (the denominator portion when expressing FPS as a rational number) for the encoded video output. integer
bitrate (optional) The desired bitrate (in bits per second) of the encoded video output. integer

Node Details

Published Topics

Topic Name Message Type Description
Configurable (default="video/encoded") kinesis_video_msgs/KinesisVideoFrame The node will publish to a topic of a given name. Each message being published contains a chunk of the video stream, usually per video frame.

Subscribed Topics

Topic Name Message Type Description
Configurable (default="/raspicam_node/image") sensor_msgs/Image The node will subscribe to a topic of a given name. The data is expected to be a stream of images from a source (such as a Raspberry Pi camera).

CONTRIBUTING

No CONTRIBUTING.md found.

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2022-02-08
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Packages

Name Version
h264_video_encoder 1.1.4

README

h264_video_encoder

Overview

This package provides a ROS Node that will encode a stream of images into an H264 video stream.

Keywords: ROS, AWS, Kinesis

License

The source code is released under LGPL 2.1. However, this package uses h264_encoder_core which incorporates several different encoding components which may further restrict the license. By default, x264 is used for software encoding, thereby applying GPL to all of h264_video_encoder.

Author: AWS RoboMaker
Affiliation: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

RoboMaker cloud extensions rely on third-party software licensed under open-source licenses and are provided for demonstration purposes only. Incorporation or use of RoboMaker cloud extensions in connection with your production workloads or commercial product(s) or devices may affect your legal rights or obligations under the applicable open-source licenses. AWS does not provide support for this cloud extension. You are solely responsible for how you configure, deploy, and maintain this cloud extension in your workloads or commercial product(s) or devices.

Supported ROS Distributions

  • Kinetic
  • Melodic

Installation

Building from Source

To build from source you'll need to create a new workspace, clone and checkout the latest release branch of this repository, install all the dependencies, and compile. If you need the latest development features you can clone from the master branch instead of the latest release branch. While we guarantee the release branches are stable, the master should be considered to have an unstable build due to ongoing development.

  • Install build tool: please refer to colcon installation guide

  • Create a ROS workspace and a source directory

    mkdir -p ~/ros-workspace/src
    
  • Clone the package into the source directory .

    cd ~/ros-workspace/src
    git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git -b release-latest
    
  • Install dependencies

    cd ~/ros-workspace 
    sudo apt-get update && rosdep update
    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
    

Note: If building the master branch instead of a release branch you may need to also checkout and build the master branches of the packages this package depends on.

  • Build the packages

    cd ~/ros-workspace && colcon build
    
  • Configure ROS library Path

    source ~/ros-workspace/install/setup.bash
    
  • Build and run the unit tests

    colcon build --packages-select h264_video_encoder --cmake-target tests
    colcon test --packages-select h264_video_encoder h264_encoder_core && colcon test-results --all
    

Building on Cloud9 - Cross Compilation

  • In RoboMaker's Cloud9, start with an empty workspace and in the Cloud9 console:

    # build docker image cd /opt/robomaker/cross-compilation-dockerfile/ sudo bin/build_image.bash # this step will take a while

    # create workspace mkdir -p ~/environment/robot_ws/src cd ~/environment/robot_ws/src git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-common.git git clone https://github.com/aws-robotics/kinesisvideo-encoder-ros1.git

    # run docker image cd .. sudo docker run -v $(pwd):/ws -it ros-cross-compile:armhf

  • Now you're inside the cross-compilation docker container

    # build the workspace cd ws apt update rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y # this step will take a while colcon build --build-base armhf_build --install-base armhf_install colcon bundle --build-base armhf_build --install-base armhf_install --bundle-base armhf_bundle --apt-sources-list /opt/cross/apt-sources.yaml # this step will take a while exit

  • Now you're oustide the cross-compilation docker container

    # for more on copying s3 buckets see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/cp.html aws s3 cp armhf_bundle/output.tar.gz s3:///h264_video_encoder.armhf.tar

Launch Files

A launch file called h264_video_encoder.launch is included in this package. The launch file uses the following arguments:

Arg Name Description
node_name (optional) The name the H264 encoder node should be launched with. If not provided, the node name will default to h264_video_encoder
config_file (optional) A path to a rosparam config file.

An example launch file called sample_application.launch is included in this project that gives an example of how you can include this node in your project and provide it with arguments.

Usage

Running the node

To launch the H264 encoder node, you can run the following command:

roslaunch h264_video_encoder sample_application.launch

Configuration File and Parameters

An example configuration file called sample_configuration.yaml is provided for running the H264 encoder node on a Raspberry Pi based system. When the parameters are absent in the ROS parameter server, default values are used, thus all parameters are optional. See table below for details.

Parameter Name Description Type
queue_size (optional) The maximum number of incoming and outgoing messages to be queued towards the subscribed and publishing topics. integer
output_width (optional) The desired width (in pixels) of each frame in the encoded video output. integer
output_height (optional) The desired height (in pixels) of each frame in the encoded video output. integer
fps_numerator (optional) The desired frames per second (the numerator portion when expressing FPS as a rational number) for the encoded video output. integer
fps_denominator (optional) The desired frames per second (the denominator portion when expressing FPS as a rational number) for the encoded video output. integer
bitrate (optional) The desired bitrate (in bits per second) of the encoded video output. integer

Node Details

Published Topics

Topic Name Message Type Description
Configurable (default="video/encoded") kinesis_video_msgs/KinesisVideoFrame The node will publish to a topic of a given name. Each message being published contains a chunk of the video stream, usually per video frame.

Subscribed Topics

Topic Name Message Type Description
Configurable (default="/raspicam_node/image") sensor_msgs/Image The node will subscribe to a topic of a given name. The data is expected to be a stream of images from a source (such as a Raspberry Pi camera).

CONTRIBUTING

No CONTRIBUTING.md found.