We finally merged two new adapters in the Savant Framework, which helps integrate Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) with Savant. KVS is a great technology that combines video-optimized streaming and video storage.
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It is difficult to work efficiently with multiple video sources in a computer vision pipeline. The system must handle their connection, disconnection, and outages, negotiate codecs, and spin corresponding decoder and encoder pipelines based on known hardware features and limitations.
That is why Savant promotes plug-and-play technology for video streams, which takes care of the nuances related to source management, automatic dead source eviction, codec negotiation, etc. Developers do not care about how the framework implements that – just attach and detach new sources on demand.
The article demonstrates how to dynamically attach and detach sources to a pipeline with plain Docker.
To fully understand how Savant works with adapters, please first read the article related to the Savant protocol in the documentation. In this article, we will show how to connect and disconnect a source from a running module without diving into how it works internally.
In our samples, we use the “docker-compose” to simplify the execution and help users quickly launch the code. However, this often causes misunderstandings among those who do not understand Docker machinery well. So, let us begin by “decomposing” a sample. Savant supports Unix domain sockets and TCP/IP sockets for component communication, and we will try both.
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We are happy to announce a new release of Savant – 0.3.11. This release is 100% API compatible with 0.2.11 but is built on DeepStream 6.4 and JetPack 6.0 DP. Thus, it does not support the Jetson Xavier family. Both 0.3.x and 0.2.x branches are maintained under long-term support conditions. They do not receive new features, only bug fixes related to stable operation.
The upcoming 0.4.x branch, which will succeed 0.3.x, is developing all new functionality. The roadmap for 0.4.0 is here. The release focuses on better interaction with data sources and sinks.