For a theater show I need to stream Raspicam to Gem.
I found some solution with VLC. Here is a good comparison of some solutions : http://stephane.lavirotte.com/perso/rov/video_streaming.html
VLC is a good choice since there is a VLC backend to play video in Gem, so one can use it to display network stream into Gem.
But VLC based solution suffer from big latency, around 1 sec, a bit too much for me.
So I dig a bit and found this very good article : http://antonsmindstorms.blogspot.nl/2014/12/realtime-video-stream-with-raspberry-pi.html.
And this one, pretty similar : http://blog.tkjelectronics.dk/2013/06/how-to-stream-video-and-audio-from-a-raspberry-pi-with-no-latency/.
But the two use gstreamer-1.0 which doesn’t work with Puredata and Gem.
To feed Gstreamer into Gem, there are mainly two solutions : v4l2loopback (https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback) or pdgst (https://github.com/umlaeute/pdgst).
But those are not (yet) working with gst-1.0.
So I found a way to make a gst-0.10 pipeline to decode the stream and send it to a v4l2loopback device.
First you need gstreamer-0.10 and v4l2loopback :
sudo apt-get install gstreamer-0.10 v4l2loopback-dkms
enable v4l2loopback with :
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
after that you should have a new /dev/video* device. For example, on my laptop with an integrated webcam (which is /dev/video0), I have a /dev/video1 device which is the v4l2loopback device.

Then you’ll need some ffmpeg modules. FFMPEG is no more available for Ubuntu since it has been replaced by avconv – and gst-1.0 support avconv but not gst-0.10.
Here you can find some tips to install ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04+ : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clementine-player/JnGgRyUEuc4
Note that there is no utopic (14.10) repository but the trusty’s (14.04) one works for utopic.

Now here is the gstreamer pipelines I use. On the Pi :
raspivid -t 0 -b 2000000 -fps 60 -w 1280 -h 720 -o - | gst-launch-1.0 -e -vvv fdsrc ! h264parse ! rtph264pay pt=96 config-interval=5 ! udpsink host=10.42.0.1 port=5001
don’t forget to change the ip address to fit your computer’s IP.

And on my laptop :
gst-launch -v udpsrc port=5001 ! application/x-rtp, payload=96 ! rtph264depay ! ffdec_h264 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! v4l2sink device=/dev/video1

Then I can display the stream in Gem with 10-11 frames latency at 60Hz, around 100-116 ms. Which is great !