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Raspberry Pi 2 Server Essentials
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Raspberry Pi 2 Server Essentials

by Piotr J Kula
April 2016
Beginner
174 pages
3h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring the UV4L-RaspiCAM

The configuration file can be found at /etc/uv4l/uv4l-raspicam.conf and is used to configure the initial video stream. There are default settings that are used, and the following bullet points are settings found within the file that you may be interested in changing manually for your own use.

Note

These are some typical settings that you may want to use if capturing a stream using VLC. The driver is adaptive and will change configurations if you request MJPEG stream, or it will start a WebSockets stream from the browser, technically allowing you multiple streams. Multi-streaming is experimental, though.

Here are some typical settings:

  • Encoding:

    Streaming: H264, mjpeg, jpeg, yuv420

    Specialist: nv21, yvu420, rgb565, rgb565x, ...

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ISBN: 9781783985692