Selected solution

Since I already mentioned in the requirements that we have a popular multimedia framework available called GStreamer, we will go for it. This is not rocket science. We will enable it in our rootfs. Certainly, we will face issues. However, we will hit our heads against these issues and resolve them. The answer to our problems is in the form of plugins. This way, we will enable BeagleBone to capture the stream from the attached webcam and serve it over our network to the client side.

Host/server side (BeagleBone)

A webcam will be attached to BeagleBone, and it will stream what is captured. The following are some of the requirements:

• v4l2src: This is a plugin for reading from Video4Linux2-based devices, which is the Video I/O API and driver framework. Using this, we will widen the choice of our capture devices. These plugins run in user space. They call kernel IOCTL to communicate with the underlying kernel space driver for particular sensors plugged in via the USB of BeagleBone...