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Metropolis Microservices for NVIDIA Jetson

Table of Contents [Sticky]

• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Get Started
• AI Stack
• Platform Services
  • Starting and Stopping
  • Video Storage Toolkit
  • Redis
  • API Gateway (Ingress)
  • Monitoring
  • IO Gateway
• RidgeRun Services
  • PTZ
  • Detection
  • AI Agent
  • Analytics
• RidgeRun SmartSeek360 Demo
  • Demo Description
  • Getting the Code
  • Running the Demo
  • Performance and Footprint
• Tools
  • NVStreamer
  • API Usage
• Contact Us

Video Storge Toolkit or VST, is an NVIDIA offering that comes as part of the Metropolis Microservices framework. This service can be used to setup RTSP or IP cameras, handle their video streams and record then using a set of rules if needed. It includes a Web interface to interfact on a easier manner with it, and setup control and view video sources, and access archival streams. The UI can be accessed via the url: http://<IP_address>:30080/vst The landing page will look like the following:

VST main page

VST is able to auto-detect and use ONVIF-S compliant cameras. You can also manually add cameras and any other stream that uses rtsp. NVIDIA provides the following QVL for IP cameras:

Manufacturer	Model
ANNKE	C500
ANNKE	NC400
AMCREST	IP8M-2493EW
AMCREST	IP8M-T2499E
AMCREST	IP8M-2493EW
AMCREST	IP8M-2496E
AMCREST	IP2M-841W-V3
AMCREST	IP4M-1026E
AMCREST	IP5M-T1179E
AXIS	P3301
BOSCH	Flexidome_IP_4000I
CP PLUS	CP-UNC-TB41L3-MDS-0360
JIDETECH	IPC-3C1-5MP
HANWHA	QND-6012R
HANWHA	QND-6012R
QSEE	QTN8083B
QSEE	QTN8083B-N
SONY	SNV-VB640
SONY	SNC-VB770
SONY	SNC-XM632
SONY	SNC-EM630
HIKVISION	DS-2CD2043G0-I
HIKVISION	DS-2CD2T43G0-I5
HIKVISION	DS-2CD2045FWD-I
HIKVISION	DS-2CD3121G0-I
HIKVISION	DS-2CD3023G0E-I

Features

• Support and auto-detect for ONVIF-S compliant devices.
• Manage and add video sources using RTSP URLs.
• Accelerated WebRTC protocol.
• Support for H264 and H265 encoding.
• Live monitoring and video wall support.
• Event based recording and triggers.
• Video storage with aging policy.
• REST API to enable control from client applications

RTSP stream example

On this section we are going to add a new RTSP stream to VST using GStreamer and RidgeRun's RtspSink element, running on the Jetson Orin AGX.

To do so, we need to start VST and ingress services:

sudo systemctl enable jetson-ingress --now
sudo systemctl enable jetson-vst --now

1. Then, we need to install the element, you can obtain a license or a evaluation package contacting support.
2. The sample source is going to use the provided videotestsrc element by GStreamer and it's going to be encoded using the platforms accelerated h264 encoder.
   

   gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc is-live=true ! "video/x-raw,height=720,width=1280,framerate=30/1" ! nvvidconv ! nvv4l2h264enc insert-sps-pps=true idrinterval=30 ! "video/x-h264,mapping=/stream1" ! rtspsink service=6000

   
   The url will look like rtsp://JETSON_IP/stream1
3. Then to add it we navigate to the Camera management section of the web UI, and scroll down to Add device manually, and we add the stream information like so:
   

   

   VST Camera Management tab

4. We click Submit and then we can see our stream by going to the Live Streams tab and selecting our source:
   

   

   VST live preview tab

API Usage

NVIDIA provides an interface to configure and use VST via any client application, besides the reference Web UI. This interface comes in the form of a REST API, and it's details are documented here

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