Hmm. I found this which seems promising:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/
Ok. I will try to explain what I am trying to do clearly and in much detail.
I have a small humanoid robot with camera and wifi stick (this is the robot). The robot's wifi stick average wifi transfer rate is 1769KB/s. The robot has 500Mhz CPU and 256MB RAM so it is not enough for any serious computations (moreover there are already couple modules running on the robot for motion, vision, sonar, speech etc).
I have a PC from which I control the robot. I am trying to have the robot walk around the room and see a live stream video of what the robot sees in the PC.
What I already have working. The robot is walking as I want him to do and taking images with the camera. The images are being sent through UDP protocol to the PC where I am receiving them (I have verified this by saving the incoming images on the disk).
The camera returns images which are 640 x 480 px in YUV442 colorspace. I am sending the images with lossy compression (JPEG) because I am trying to get the best possible FPS on the PC. I am doing the compression to JPEG on the robot with PIL library.
My questions:
Could somebody please give me some ideas about how to convert the incoming JPEG images to a live video stream? I understand that I will need some video encoder for that. Which video encoder do you recommend? FFMPEG or something else? I am very new to video streaming so I want to know what is best for this task. I'd prefer to use Python to write this so I would prefer some video encoder or library which has Python API. But I guess if the library has some good command line API it doesn't have to be in Python.
What is the best FPS I could get out from this? Given the 176