libvlc + QT + openCV Demo

RtspPlayer is a cross platform desktop-based RTSP client.

• We use LibVLC to get RTSP stream and decode the video
• Give an example of how to convert the image frame to the OpenCV Mat format to apply computer vision algorithm.
• We use OpenGL to acclerate rendering the video on Qt windows GUI.

Dependency Library

• C++ 11
• QT 5.7.1
• LibVlc 2.2.2
• OpenCV 2.4.9

You can also downlaod the compiled binary here.

Windows Development Environment

• Visual studio 2013 with x64 tool chain
• Visual Studio Add-in 2.0.0 for Qt5 MSVC 2013

Ubuntu Development Environment

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Install QT 5.7.1 and Qt Creator. (https://wiki.qt.io/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu)
• Set QT5 to the default Qt version for development binaries like qmake

$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default

• Install libvlc-dev on Ubuntu. (http://www.rukspot.com/How_to_install_LibVLC_on_Ubuntu.html)
• Install OpenCV on Ubuntu. (http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_install/linux_install.html)