taking pictures and videos using pi camera module

pi_picture.sh

# take one picture and save it into file
raspistill -o test.jpg

# record a video for 10 seconds in the h264 codec
raspivid -o test.h264 -t 10000

# GStreamer
gst-launch-1.0 -e -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2,width=640,height=480,framerate=10/1 ! videoconvert ! x264enc tune=zerolatency ! rtph264pay config-interval=1 pt=96 ! udpsink host=192.168.3.6 port=5006 sync=false
gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! 'video/x-raw,width=640,height=480' ! x264enc tune=zerolatency ! 'video/x-h264,stream-format=byte-stream' ! h264parse ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.6 port=5006
# the below is the one that worked
gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, width=620, height=480, framerate=30/1 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=I420 ! vp8enc ! rtpvp8pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.6 port=5006
gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, width=620, height=480, framerate=30/1 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=I420 ! x264enc ! h264parse ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.6 port=5006

# this is the pipeline that worked so well
gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, width=620, height=480, framerate=30/1 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=I420 ! x264enc bitrate=1000 speed-preset=ultrafast tune=zerolatency ! h264parse ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=192.168.3.6 port=5006