nah it is not necessary for me to use gstreamer. I’m happy using whatever that works as long as i can extract the video frames out from the ESP32’s stream for further processing. I will go search up the android media ndk. Thanks!
Edit:
I saw this old post in the older opencv forums by you! IP Camera frames manipulation - OpenCV Q&A Forum
Many of the imports are now not available in versions 4.8.0 and 4.9.0