Video Streaming with Socket programming

In this article I’ve shown Using Python socket programming to create Video streaming app using TCP stream.

Here’s the client.py code:

import socket,cv2, pickle,struct
# create socket
client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host_ip = '192.168.29.78' # paste your server ip address here
port = 9999
client_socket.connect((host_ip,port)) # a tuple
data = b""
payload_size = struct.calcsize("Q")
while True:
    while len(data) < payload_size:
        packet = client_socket.recv(4*1024) # 4K
        if not packet: break
        data+=packet
    packed_msg_size = data[:payload_size]
    data = data[payload_size:]
    msg_size = struct.unpack("Q",packed_msg_size)[0]
    
    while len(data) < msg_size:
        data += client_socket.recv(4*1024)
    frame_data = data[:msg_size]
    data  = data[msg_size:]
    frame = pickle.loads(frame_data)
    cv2.imshow("RECEIVING VIDEO",frame)
    key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
    if key  == ord('q'):
        break
client_socket.close()

And Here is the server.py code

import socket, cv2, pickle,struct
# Socket Create
server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
#host_name  = socket.gethostname()
host_ip = '0.0.0.0'
print('HOST IP:',host_ip)
port = 9999
socket_address = (host_ip,port)
# Socket Bind
server_socket.bind(socket_address)
# Socket Listen
server_socket.listen(5)
print("LISTENING AT:",socket_address)
# Socket Accept
while True:
    client_socket,addr = server_socket.accept()
    print('GOT CONNECTION FROM:',addr)
    if client_socket:
        vid = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
        
        while(vid.isOpened()):
            img,frame = vid.read()
            a = pickle.dumps(frame)
            message = struct.pack("Q",len(a))+a
            client_socket.sendall(message)
            
            cv2.imshow('TRANSMITTING VIDEO',frame)
            key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
            if key ==ord('q'):
                client_socket.close()

While in execution the both can communicate with TCP, with streaming video.