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codeAugust 16, 20269 min readRTSPLink Dev Team

Building Low-Latency C++ GStreamer RTSP Ingestion Pipelines

Construct zero-copy GStreamer C++ pipelines for processing real-time RTSP video streams with GPU acceleration.

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#1GStreamer rtspsrc Pipeline in C++

Initialize a zero-copy GStreamer pipeline using rtspsrc over TCP with latency=100:

GStreamer C++ Pipeline
#include <gst/gst.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    gst_init(&argc, &argv);
    GstElement *pipeline = gst_parse_launch(
        "rtspsrc location=rtsp://rtsplink.com/live/test?token=demo latency=100 protocols=tcp ! "
        "rtph264depay ! h264parse ! avdec_h264 ! videoconvert ! autovideosink", NULL);
    gst_element_set_state(pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
    g_main_loop_run(g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE));
    return 0;
}

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