shivansh / videoStream

Concurrent feedback-driven video broadcast protocol. Course project for Computer Networks (CS425).

Concurrent feedback-driven video broadcast protocol

Dependencies

• OpenCV (3.2.0)
• numpy

Implementation overview

An overview of the implemented design -

The reader-writer model

The implemented reader-writer model depicting 3 concurrent readers -

Project Report

Instructions

For quick testing purposes, run ./run.sh. This script starts a server and client process.

The current setup performs the transfer locally at localhost.

To run the individual components, follow the instructions below.

• Start the server -

  python -O server.py -p <port>
  

  To enable debug mode, remove the -O flag.
  The server retrieves frames_per_payload number of frames from the webcam and constructs the following payload which is transferred -
  

• Start the client -

  python client.py -p <port>
  

  This will retrieve the payload from server, unpack and convert to numpy array appropriately, rendering the frames on the fly.