Command-line interface (CLI)

[jrsnen]

There has been talk that this could be a useful feature for uvgRTP. Command-line interface would mean that outside programs could call uvgrtp from the command line and perform RTP operations that way without having to create and compile a separate application.

Something like this:

uvgrtp --input cin --format hevc --destination 127.0.0.1:10000 --source 127.0.0.1:9000
or
uvgrtp --input file.hevc --destination 127.0.0.1:10000 --source 127.0.0.1:9000

Outside contribution are welcome.

[jrsnen]

Worth checking out: https://github.com/empirical-soft/command-interface

[db-tech]

Not sure for what purpose you really want to add this but this pattern most of the time just makes code harder to maintain.

[jrsnen]

Here I was talking about creating a separate executable that can be run from the command line using command line parameters. Something like this:

uvgrtp --input cin --format hevc --destination 127.0.0.1:10000 --source 127.0.0.1:9000
or
uvgrtp --input file.hevc --destination 127.0.0.1:10000 --source 127.0.0.1:9000

In essence, this would enable using uvgRTP in simple situations without having to create a separate program. This would be really cool with our hevc encoder (which already has a command line interface), so one could take raw input and pipe it to kvazaar and then uvgRTP and the receiving uvgRTP would save it to a file on another computer! (I will update the description)

This feature would not affect the existing code much, but would be an addition to it.

That link was just something I found on HN, not sure if it is relevant or not.

[db-tech]

Ah k, then I misunderstood your intention.. yeah, would be a nice thing to have...