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Real-time video server for embedded apps
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Real-time video server for embedded apps

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RVideo
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Real-time video server for embedded apps.

## What is RVideo

RVideo is a library which solves the problem of streaming video from embedded
computer-vision applications. Many of such are headless and do not require a
dedicated interface, however it is often useful (especially for developers) to
see what is happening on the device. RVideo provides a simple API to stream
video from your embedded application to a remote client.

## How does it work

Unlike other streaming solutions, the goal of RVideo is to provide a minimal
overhead for an embedded application it is included into:

* Frames are always sent as-is, usually in RAW formats (it is more than enough
for most debugging use-cases)

* All frames, not received by a client in time, are dropped

* No any buffering is performed on the server side

* Real-time-safe code is used to minimize the impact on the main application

## Clients

RVideo streams can be received with clients provided by crate. For ready-to-use
UI, see the [`rvideo-view`](https://crates.io/crates/rvideo-view) crate.

## Locking safety

By default, the server uses [parking_lot](https://crates.io/crates/parking_lot)
for locking. For real-time applications, the following features are available:

* `locking-rt` - use [parking_lot_rt](https://crates.io/crates/parking_lot_rt)
crate which is a spin-free fork of parking_lot.

* `locking-rt-safe` - use [rtsc](https://crates.io/crates/rtsc)
priority-inheritance locking, which is not affected by priority inversion
(Linux only).

Note: to switch locking policy, disable the crate default features.

## About

RVideo is a part of [RoboPLC](https://www.roboplc.com/) project.