Sending live video frame over network in python opencv

Question

I\'m trying to send live video frame that I catch with my camera to a server and process them. I\'m usig opencv for image processing and python for the language. Here is my

Answer 1

I changed the code from @mguijarr to work with Python 3. Changes made to the code:

• data is now a byte literal instead of a string literal
• Changed "H" to "L" to send larger frame sizes. Based on the documentation, we can now send frames of size 2^32 instead of just 2^16.

Server.py

import pickle
import socket
import struct

import cv2

HOST = ''
PORT = 8089

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
print('Socket created')

s.bind((HOST, PORT))
print('Socket bind complete')
s.listen(10)
print('Socket now listening')

conn, addr = s.accept()

data = b'' ### CHANGED
payload_size = struct.calcsize("L") ### CHANGED

while True:

    # Retrieve message size
    while len(data) < payload_size:
        data += conn.recv(4096)

    packed_msg_size = data[:payload_size]
    data = data[payload_size:]
    msg_size = struct.unpack("L", packed_msg_size)[0] ### CHANGED

    # Retrieve all data based on message size
    while len(data) < msg_size:
        data += conn.recv(4096)

    frame_data = data[:msg_size]
    data = data[msg_size:]

    # Extract frame
    frame = pickle.loads(frame_data)

    # Display
    cv2.imshow('frame', frame)
    cv2.waitKey(1)

Client.py

import cv2
import numpy as np
import socket
import sys
import pickle
import struct

cap=cv2.VideoCapture(0)
clientsocket=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
clientsocket.connect(('localhost',8089))

while True:
    ret,frame=cap.read()
    # Serialize frame
    data = pickle.dumps(frame)

    # Send message length first
    message_size = struct.pack("L", len(data)) ### CHANGED

    # Then data
    clientsocket.sendall(message_size + data)