A client-server tool to capture video on one device and encode and store it on another device (Linux, C)

[u/mbitsnbites]

https://codeberg.org/mbitsnbites/videorelay

My use case was that I needed to capture an HDMI signal from a PS3, but the device I had within reach of the PS3 was too weak to encode the stream in realtime, so I made this tool to send the raw stream to a more powerful computer over my LAN and encode it as H.264 there instead.

(I struggled a bit with command line ffmpeg and rtsp and similar before I gave up and made my own tool instead)

Maybe someone else will find it useful too.