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Depending on the operating system, you can easily find the IP address of your machine as

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follows:

MAC OS users
Go to the terminal window and run this command:

ipconfig getifaddr en0

That will show your LAN IP address. Note that en0 is commonly used for ethernet interface, and
en1 is for the Airport interface. Make sure that your IP address is not starting from 127.x.x.x
because that is your local host, and if you only want to check server client for the same pc then
it is fine. Otherwise, consider using the command above and write the correct ip address for
video transfer over different machines.

Depending on different OS settings:

Linux/Ubuntu OS users
From the terminal window run this command:

ifconfig

The required IP address will be for Wifi LAN (inet)

Windows OS users
From the cmd window run this command:

ipconfig

The required IP address will show against IPv4 Address

Block diagram explaining server/client Python modules

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server.py
# Welcome to PyShine

# This code is for the server

# Lets import the libraries
import socket, cv2, pickle,struct,imutils

# Socket Create
server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host_name = socket.gethostname()
host_ip = socket.gethostbyname(host_name)
print('HOST IP:',host_ip)
port = 9999
socket_address = (host_ip,port)

# Socket Bind
server_socket.bind(socket_address)

# Socket Listen
server_socket.listen(5)
print("LISTENING AT:",socket_address)

# Socket Accept
while True:
client_socket,addr = server_socket.accept()
print('GOT CONNECTION FROM:',addr)
if client_socket:
vid = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

while(vid.isOpened()):
img,frame = vid.read()
frame = imutils.resize(frame,width=320)
a = pickle.dumps(frame)
message = struct.pack("Q",len(a))+a
client_socket.sendall(message)

cv2.imshow('TRANSMITTING VIDEO',frame)
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
if key ==ord('q'):
client_socket.close()

After running the server.py, copy paste the host_ip of that to client.py, let’s say if it is
192.168.1.20 then our client code would be:

client.py
# lets make the client code
import socket,cv2, pickle,struct

# create socket
client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host_ip = '192.168.1.20' # paste your server ip address here
port = 9999

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client_socket.connect((host_ip,port)) # a tuple
data = b""
payload_size = struct.calcsize("Q")
while True:
while len(data) < payload_size:
packet = client_socket.recv(4*1024) # 4K
if not packet: break
data+=packet
packed_msg_size = data[:payload_size]
data = data[payload_size:]
msg_size = struct.unpack("Q",packed_msg_size)[0]

while len(data) < msg_size:

data += client_socket.recv(4*1024)
frame_data = data[:msg_size]
data = data[msg_size:]
frame = pickle.loads(frame_data)
cv2.imshow("RECEIVING VIDEO",frame)
key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
if key == ord('q'):
break
client_socket.close()

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Naseer Ahmed • 7 months ago

I want to encrypt the video frame with aes 256 before sending and decrypting it after it
is received . How to add aes 256 encryption in server.py and client .py. Send me
please at email and reply . Thanks

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