GStreamer can open IP Camera successfully, but uisng OpenCV CAP_GSTREAMER can't open IP Camera ?

Dear Sir,

I’m using GStreamer command line to open IP Camera successfully:

gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.64:554 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! omxh264dec ! nvvidconv ! video/x-raw, width=1920, height=1280, format=BGRx ! videoconvert ! appsink

But I using the same parameters in OpenCV, I can’t open the IP Camera.

Running result:
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu~:$ python ipcamera.py
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu~:$ Failed to open camera!

OpenCV source code:

# coding=utf-8
import sys
import argparse
import cv2
import numpy as np
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
 
    image_width = 1920
    image_height = 1080
    rtsp_latency = 200
 
    #uri = "rtsp://192.168.1.64:554/user=admin&password=123456&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?"    
    uri = "rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.64:554"    
    gst_str = ("rtspsrc location={} latency={} ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! omxh264dec ! nvvidconv ! video/x-raw, width=(int){}, height=(int){}, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! appsink sync=false").format(uri, rtsp_latency, image_width, image_height)         
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(gst_str, cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
    if not cap.isOpened():
        sys.exit("Failed to open camera!")
 
    #Display window setting
    width = 640
    height = 480
    windowName = "CameraDemo"
    cv2.namedWindow(windowName, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
    cv2.resizeWindow(windowName, width, height)
    cv2.moveWindow(windowName, 0, 0)
    cv2.setWindowTitle(windowName, "Camera Demo for Jetson TX2/TX1")   
    
    showHelp = True
    showFullScreen = False
    helpText = "'Esc' to Quit, 'H' to Toggle Help, 'F' to Toggle Fullscreen"
    font = cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_PLAIN
 
    image = ''
    i = 0
    
    while True:
        if cv2.getWindowProperty(windowName, 0) < 0: #Check window opened
            break;
        ret_val, displayBuf = cap.read();
        if showHelp == True:
            cv2.putText(displayBuf, helpText, (11,20), font, 1.0, (32,32,32), 4, cv2.LINE_AA)
            cv2.putText(displayBuf, helpText, (10,20), font, 1.0, (240,240,240), 1, cv2.LINE_AA)
        #Display video
        cv2.imshow(windowName, displayBuf)
        key = cv2.waitKey(10)
        #Save capture image
        i += 1        
        image = "/home/nvidia/image" + str(i) + ".jpg"        
        cv2.imwrite(image,displayBuf)        
        
        if key == 27: # ESC key: quit program
            break
        elif key == ord('H') or key == ord('h'): # toggle help message
            showHelp = not showHelp
        elif key == ord('F') or key == ord('f'): # toggle fullscreen
            showFullScreen = not showFullScreen
            if showFullScreen == True: 
                cv2.setWindowProperty(windowName, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_FULLSCREEN)
            else:
                cv2.setWindowProperty(windowName, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL) 
    
    cap.release()
    cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Dear,

If I don’t using CAP_GSTREAMER, OpenCV can open the camera success, I wondered why this problem happens, and anyone using GSTREAMER to open IP Camera success.

Change this

uri = "rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.64:554"    
    gst_str = ("rtspsrc location={} latency={} ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! omxh264dec ! nvvidconv ! video/x-raw, width=(int){}, height=(int){}, format=(string)BGRx ! videoconvert ! appsink sync=false").format(uri, rtsp_latency, image_width, image_height)         
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(gst_str, cv2.CAP_GSTREAMER)
    if not cap.isOpened():
        sys.exit("Failed to open camera!")

to

uri = "rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.1.64:554"    
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(uri)
    if not cap.isOpened():
        sys.exit("Failed to open camera!")

Hi,
Do you install OpenCV by Jetpack? It does not enable gstreamer by default.

Please try to manually install via the script
https://github.com/AastaNV/JEP/blob/master/script/install_opencv3.4.0_TX2.sh

Dear DaneLLL,

I’m using the script to install OpenCV to open IP Camera with gstreamer works fine, thanks.
Before I installed OpenCV + Python 3.5 is fail.