# Displaying livestream video and saving individual frames at the same time on android

**URL:** https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/displaying-livestream-video-and-saving-individual-frames-at-the-same-time-on-android/1436
**Category:** Application Development
**Tags:** android
**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/displaying-livestream-video-and-saving-individual-frames-at-the-same-time-on-android/1436 "2024-04-23T03:15:17Z")
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### Author: ![werkywerk](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/9de0a6/32.png) [@werkywerk](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/werkywerk)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/displaying-livestream-video-and-saving-individual-frames-at-the-same-time-on-android/1436/1 "2024-04-23T03:15:17Z")

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In order to run the video from the livestream from an esp32, this is the current code that initiates the videoplayer on the screen

```auto
    private fun innitPlayer() {
        Log.i(TAG, "innitPlayer")

        val streamURL = viewModel.setGstPipeline()

        Log.i(TAG, "Pipeline sent to C code: $streamURL")
        // we use this function to set the pipeline on the c side
        nativeSetPipeline(streamURL)

        // initialise gstreamer player and warns if it fails
        try {
            GStreamer.init(requireContext())
        } catch (e: Exception) {
            Toast.makeText(requireContext(), e.message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
        }

        val sv = binding.surfaceVideo
        val sh = sv.holder
        sh.addCallback(this)

        // initialise native code and is ready to accept commands
        nativeInit()

    }

```

i am using this command to be sent to the Gstreamer init. I have read that using the tee allows me to display both the frame and to save the frame to a variable for further processing

```auto
souphttpsrc location=http://192.168.0.100 ! multipartdemux ! jpegdec ! videoconvert ! tee name=splitter
                splitter. ! queue ! autovideosink
                splitter. ! queue ! jpegenc snapshot=TRUE ! appsink

```

The goal is to:

1. Save the frame to the android device locally
2. Pass the bitmap to a tflite model for object detection on the phone itself.

How should i modify my code in order to access the appsink so that I can access the individual frames?  
In addition, is using appsink the correct way to do this?