Save ESP32-CAM Video to Raspberry Pi

1 Hour Recording Test to AVI file(Recoding AVI file from ESP32-CAM RTSP on RPI Zero 2 W)
The ESP32-CAM is an ESP32 board with a very affordable camera module.
There are many projects going on because we can try many projects for a very low price.
What I tested in this video was saving the video from the ESP32-CAM on RPI Zero 2 W to an AVI file.
It was not easy to create and save video files from the ESP32-CAM externally. However, if you use the record function of VLC Player, you can save the video very easily.
[TenDollarWebcam]
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[@jameszahary]

Interesting - I used the same hardware, but set up motioneye on the pi2w, and my esp32-cam-video-recorder on several esp32 -- I found the rtsp on esp32 to be a little slow. Motioneye can take a mjpeg stream, or even better just query a jpeg from the esp32 10+ times a second, and motioneye will merge it into an efficient h264 video plus do motion detection, while the esp32 will record those giant high frame rate mjpeg files on the esp32 if you need that video. Usually the slower efficient video from the pi2w is all you need.

[@ThatProject]

That's great. If there is an opportunity, I'd like to do a project with Motioneye.

[@Etienne85]

I'm just curious to see if esp32 is able to provide that 10 records per sec?

[@ThatProject]

@@Etienne85 It depends on the resolution, but 10FPS seems to be no problem.

[@ITSME-tz8qe]

What if I want to receive image? What changes should I do?

[@ThatProject]

What do you mean by to receive image? You want to get only a single image instead of streaming?

[@ardeahimawannugroho1331]

Hi, can I ask you something? I plan to make a home door security system project using face recognition (convolutional neural network method) based on the Internet of Things for my campus assignment. I will use raspberry pi zero w for the brain and esp32cam for the video stream. The system works esp32cam (web server) will send an IP and will be retrieved by raspberry pi zero w, for face recognition using the convolutional neural network method it uses openCV and there will be 3 sensors (vibration sensor, ultrasonic sensor (HC-SR04), reed switch sensor) and will be displayed on a TFT screen to see from the user's side and there will be a website for administrators to add their face database and there will be a realtime livestream on the website so that it can be checked when outside and there is a history for who is outside. Can this be possible? if so, what steps should I take? Thx u

[@ThatProject]

First of all, I think it would be a good idea to create a part where RPI receives the video from ESP32CAM and processes it with OpenCV.

[@somebody6590]

Hi, nice idea. Is it possible to directly connect the esp camera to the pi? Would be pretty interesting if so/

[@ThatProject]

I think you can set RPI to operate in WiFi AP mode, access it from ESP32-CAM, and then do the same thing.

[@somebody6590]

@@ThatProject Nice, Thanks

[@adornnet]

@That Project Thanks for the Great video. Any chance we could have the planned project of multiple camera with RPI and the recording at defined time period let say it records and save every 15mins or 30 mins or an hour? This is for easier searching of recording.

[@ThatProject]

That's a good idea. But it's not easy to create an application that runs on Linux. Let's see what I can do about it.

[@cjlowe1650]

Question! Where does the sd card go? What format? NTFS? FAT FAT32, exFat?

[@ThatProject]

I believe it should be FAT32 for ESP32.

[@jbc8220]

Would i get better video quality if i use high definition camera for the esp32? Or it has limit because of being wireless?

[@ThatProject]

Unfortunately, a bottleneck occurs between acquiring images from the ESP32 and transmitting them again via WIFI, making it difficult to acquire/transmit images very quickly. You either have to reduce the picture quality to improve performance, or increase the picture quality and give up performance.

[@jbc8220]

@@ThatProject thankss. Im planning to use a wireless camera for facial recognition purposes. Seems the best way is just use a wired camera since I need good performance and high quality video capture for it🙂

[@Arman2365]

Thats cool 👍, what was the fps from esp32 rtsp source?

[@ThatProject]

As you can see from the video, it's not that bad. I didn't check the FPS while making this project. It would be nice if there is a way to check FPS in VLC Player.

[@gabrielchong8602]

I saw the recorded video around 35min go a shacking, is it due to network or device stability?

[@ThatProject]

The network connection between the ESP32 and the router was unstable momentarily so a frame drop occurred. Next time, I will make the Raspberry Pi in AP Mode and test it by connecting it directly to the ESP32.

[@thenextproblem8001]

@@ThatProject waiting for this feature 👌 it will be awesome to watch underwater with esp 🤭

[@nogamenolife9870]

that so cool im looking this for while but can this make static ip ?

[@ThatProject]

I tested this on my local network. Additional work is required to use static IP.

[@kilobytes_]

Great video, I have been looking for something like this, where can I find the code ?

[@ThatProject]

I think all you need to do for this project is to prepare your ESP32CAM with this source code, github.com/geeksville/TenDollarWebcam and VLC for RPI.

[@kilobytes_]

@@ThatProject Thank you.

[@the_go0ber]

oh my pkcell

[@ThatProject]

You mean battery?

[@thewolfofswingthat2035]

if you have a raspberry pi zero 2, just use it as a video cam lol, it has better cameras

[@ThatProject]

You're very true. We can use a much better camera with RPI. The point of this project is to connect the camera wirelessly. It's gonna be the basic part of making a multi-channel surveillance camera system.

[@thewolfofswingthat2035]

@@ThatProject i see. i love your videos, keep the good work up

[@ThatProject]

@@thewolfofswingthat2035 Thanks man

[@josepalacid]

Great projects, great videos. Bad audio... Could you try to vo-ca-li-ze a bit? If you are in for viewers, you really should offer a pleasant experience. A bad audio denotes lack of care to your audience, more than is actually valued.

[@ThatProject]

Agreed. I'll do my best to make it better.

[@thewolfofswingthat2035]

hi That Project, i set it to AP mode and used my VLC for android on my phone but i cant receive any stream. 192.168.1.1 on browser is working fine tho, but not on VLC. any reason what went wrong? is inputting rtsp://192.168.0.8:8554/mjpeg/1 or rtsp://192.168.1.1:8554/mjpeg/1 into the stream input in vlc player correct?

[@skoylux]

Wrong selection. You must use, v3s or f1c200 or similar chips, such as lichee pi. This chips have powerful video compression hardware and contains all needed others, ram, codec, eth phy etc. And really very cheap solutions.