µStreamer is a video streaming server designed to work with embedded devices such as Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone. It is an open-source project hosted on GitHub, and in this tutorial, we will see how to install µStreamer on Debian latest.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have a Debian latest machine with an internet connection.
The first step is to install the necessary dependencies to build and run µStreamer. Open a terminal and execute the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git cmake libjpeg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libv4l-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libx264-dev libavutil-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libssl-dev
This command will update the package list and install Git (to clone the µStreamer repository), CMake (to build the project), and all the necessary libraries and packages required by µStreamer.
Next, clone the µStreamer repository using the Git command:
git clone https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer.git
This command will download the µStreamer source code to your machine.
Navigate to the cloned repository and create a build directory:
cd ustreamer
mkdir build
cd build
Next, configure the build using CMake and build the project:
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
This command will configure the build, compile the source code and install the µStreamer binary and necessary files to your system.
Finally, test the installation by running the following command:
ustreamer --help
This command should display the help menu for µStreamer, indicating that the installation was successful.
In this tutorial, we have seen how to install µStreamer on Debian latest using the source code available on GitHub. Now you can use µStreamer to stream video from your embedded devices to your web browser.
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