Chapter 7. Streaming Live HD Video

In this chapter, we are going to use the official HD camera module designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Thanks to the new quad core processor and the author of UV4L, we can now stream a video directly into a browser with low latency.

Before starting this chapter, you should have the camera module installed and enabled as described with the instructions included with the camera module. It is recommended to have 256 MB GPU RAM allocated.

This chapter is only suitable for the Raspberry Pi 2 or newer with the quad processor or better.

Installing UV4L

UV4L is a userspace webcam driver specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi. It also includes some other features that will be discussed in this chapter. U4VL is custom ...

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