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 RPI camera → website → Chromecast → TV: (2) Streaming the video to TV Why am I doing this? As an unemployed engineer, I need to find interesting things to fill my leisure time. I found there is a thing I can do to make my life more convenient to see the toys under my couch without in the crowing position of bending my knee and waist to find the toys which are "eaten by the couch," my kids said. Maybe I can use a camera on RPI to see the area under the couch and project the streaming video onto the TV by Chromecast. That is my initial thought. Devices An RPI4 A V2 camera My computer that I can run a server on. A Chromecast and TV Goal Streaming the video to TV From the previous post , I can stream camera data from RPI to my computer; this time, I need to project the camera data to my TV. There are many ways to send the video to TV. My initial thoughts are that if I can write a website to show videos, I can project the webpage using the browser's built-in button, and all t

 RPI camera → website → Chromecast → TV: (1) Capture video by RPI Why am I doing this? As an unemployed engineer, I need to find interesting things to fill my leisure time. I found there is a thing I can do to make my life more convenient to see the toys under my couch without in the crowing position of bending my knee and waist to find the toys which are “eaten by the couch,” my kids said. Maybe I can use a camera on RPI to see the area under the couch and project the streaming video onto the TV by Chromecast. That is my initial thought. Devices An RPI4 A V2 camera My computer that I can run a server on. A Chromecast and TV Goal Capture video by RPI libcamera-vid libcamera-vid is a built-in app for the RPI system. I found that the network streaming functionality can be enabled with libcamera-vid terminal command line, written in the official document . Thus, I can send the streamed video using the app by UDP, TCP, or RTSP. Benchmark setting The RPI camera captures the computer