saving original stream

[phirestalker]

I want to know if there is a way to save the original stream when there is an event instead of reencoding it? If I were using a camera directly connected through V4L, then I would want to encode the video for storage. With IP cams, the stream is already in h264 or h265 in most cases and I would want to preserve that.

If there isn't a way to do this currently, would you be open to the addition of the feature? I could work on it once the other PR gets merged.

[pliablepixels]

This is definitely a question that Phil needs to weigh in on (@web2wire ). I know we have an H264Relay class in Encoders and also RawH264Input in Providers but VideoEncoder in the consumer group does re-encode. I've not tested any of these interfaces. Phil?

With respect to would it be useful if not present? Absolutely.

(FYI, Phil is the video guru who did most of the core work of the framework)