VLC record webcam and stream to chrome linux - google-chrome

I am currently looking for how to accomplish what I have been told is possible.
I was told that we would be able use vlc to stream a webcam in linux which would allow for the following:
Recording the stream to the local machine for a later upload.
Play the stream as it's recording using Chrome's HTML5 video capabilities.
Send a start and stop command from the web for the vlc recording.
I have been researching this for quite some time and haven't been able to find a viable solution.
I am able to record video using VLC already with the following
vlc v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 :v4l2-width=640 :v4l2-height=480 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mpeg4,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=file,dst=capture_4.avi}"
Is this really even possible?

To answer your question if this is possible... YES it is BUT it's tricky. I can't answer all your points, only the part with streaming in VLC and displaying it in HTML5
You'll need a certain environment setup for this to work (Segmenter and correct MIME Type on server). I assume you are all on linux; which I am not (Mac OS / unix) but the principles behind it stay the same concerning the workflow of getting this to work. I'll try to explain - hope this helps in any way.
The setup I've had success with works the following way:
(1) STREAMING & RECORDING
local vlc streaming instance streaming audio and video -> producing a mpegts stream. Try changing your command to something like
vlc v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 :v4l2-width=640 :v4l2-height=480 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mpeg4,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=udp, mux=ts, sap, name=live-video, dst=224.0.0.1, port=1234}"
or
vlc v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 :v4l2-width=640 :v4l2-height=480 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mpeg4,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:udp{dst=224.0.0.1,port=1234,mux=ts}"
I'm just giving you ported commands here which work on Mac. I don't know if they work on linux. Now you should be able to play the live stream with VLC by accessing the SAP announcement or directly with
vlc -vvv udp://#224.0.0.1:1234
You could then use another vlc instance to record the stream
vlc udp://#224.0.0.1:1234 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mpeg4,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=file,dst=capture_4.avi}"
There is a duplicate command in VLC which I have been playing around with but without success. This way you could stream and record with one instance. Maybe this works on linux.
(2) SEGMENTING
mediastreamsegmenter to segment your mpegts stream into deliverable segments. I'm using Apple Server Software. Apple provides you with a mediastreamsegemnter which can take a live mpegts stream and convert it into segments which are added to a playlist. I don't know of a live segmenter in linux. Maybe someone else does.
(3) DELIVERY
html 5 page linking to the video playlist containing the segments. The mediastreamsegmenter will produce a playlist playlist.m3u8, which then can be accessed with HTML 5
<video width="640" height="480">
<source src="YOUR_PATH/playlist.m3u8" />
</video>
Some helpful tutorials concerning this topic are:
Info on the setup and basic commands
VLC examples in order to stream
I know this is not a complete solution to your problem, but this will maybe give you some nice starting points to look into.

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FFmpeg record live stream and make mp4 file closer to now to play at html5 video and should updated quickly

Now I am developing video clipping system with PHP and FFMpeg.
Recording live stream from media server with rtmp protocol.
Let's suppose we are recording football and I want make highlight soon.
so I can see live streams and also able to clip video.
Please help me if anyone have idea.
Reference URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x61rge3Q3mw
Thank you.
Angel
It's really quite complicated Task.
But I did like this.
Started record from given URL.
Make ts files per minute.(gave file format, easy to converted to mp4)
Concatenate ts files and made it to mp4( It took really small time)
Then I played mp4 files.
Was Awesome.

Can you use HTML 5 to stream video 24/7 on a website?

I've got a website and I've been looking for ways to embed a 24/7 webcast. I've looked at options such as Ustream and Justin.TV however, these do not work on mobile devices, which is what I really need.
I don't have that much knowledge on how streaming works but I've read that the streaming Engine Wowza is another option. I also found that HTML 5 player works cross platform and on any mobile device aswell.
If I were to use Wowza would it work with HTML 5 player? And am I even going in the right path with how I can do this. I also have a home dedicated server for streaming to a cloud wouldn't be required.
I'm very amateur just trying to broadcast my television program on my website for viewing. Any advice would help here. Thanks
Wowza can packetize video as http live streaming (HLS) which, although an Apple invention, works on most HTML5-capable browsers except IE11: http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/ . Many players will fall back to using Flash for browsers which don't support native HLS or H.264 encoding. Flash uses http dynamic streaming (HDS) rather than HLS, so you would add that as another packetizer in wowza. (Wowza calls these packetizers "cupertinostreamingpacketizer" and "sanjosestreamingpacketizer" respectively.)
You would then point your preferred HTML5 video player (jwplayer, flowplayer, etc) at the URL http:// your-wowza-server.com:1935/live/yourstreamname/playlist.m3u8 [1]. For Flash fallback in flowplayer you can use the f4m resolver and the http-streaming plugin, as in the first example here, to access the subtly different URL http:// your-wowza-server.com:1935/live/yourstreamname/manifest.f4m. I'm sure something similar applies in players like jwplayer and others.
The main problem with Wowza is how much it costs: for your own server you're looking at around $55 per month per channel [2]. At least during testing, you may find it cheaper to get Wowza on Amazon EC2 devpay: $5/month rental plus an extra couple of cents per hour on your normal EC2 instance costs.
[1] Assuming you're using Wowza's default /live/ application on port 1935
[2] A channel is roughly the number of streams you're sending to the server to be re-broadcast
We developped a custom HTML5 player which we wanted to make compatible with HLS and fragmented mp4 for LIVE events. We started on Zencoder but realize they were not able to do genrate fragmented mp4.
I would like to explore the flash fallback solution and the wowza( probably on AWS) for the packaging.
Would you be available to consult on this project?
We use www.bitcodin.com for event-based or 24/7 live transcoding and streaming. It generates DASH - which can be playback natively in HTML5 using the bitdash MPEG-DASH players - as well as HLS for iOS devices. You can find an example here: http://www.dash-player.com/demo/live-streaming/

Setting up multi webcam streaming

we are currently planning to connect all our offices via webcams selectable from a website. So I guess the setup could be something like this:
Webcam 1 \
Webcam 2 - > Streamserver -> Webserver displaying html5 Video
Webcam n /
I've made first tests from streaming from Windows using VLC to a central ffserver, but the results where rather bad (after 1-2 frames the stream stopped).
Do you have any suggestions on
- which stream software I can use on the client/webcam site (Linux or Windows)
- which software I can use on the server side (Linux) for collecting and recoding streams?
Thanks,
Moritz
I would recommend using WebRTC instead of VLC & ffserver.
All you will need for this implementation is a central node server.
And if you did not want to go the webRTC rout you could always just stream right over a socket, but I really think webRTC is the way to go.
from scratch :
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/
using something made to make it a little simpler :
http://simplewebrtc.com/

flash: play a movie from half way in

Is it possible to play an MP4/H.264 movie in flash from half way thru?
Currently cant figure out how to seek to a time that hasn't buffered yet. Is there anyway of getting flash to start buffering half way into a movie?
edit:
The moov atom has already been set at the beginning of the MP4 file.
use pseudo-streaming
Normally you need a to use an streaming server which cost $$$ but you can use Pseudo-streaming.
Pseudo-streaming uses server-side scripts/modules where you have the server slice up the movie starting at the point you want to start from and wrap it as an mp4.
Stream your videos with standard HTTP servers
Pseudo-streaming (another article)
Oh yeah, I forgot about red5 as mentioned below in the comments. That is a free media server option for real streaming.
red5.org

RTSP H.264 IP camera as video source/input in windows

I'm currently stuck with this problem and I hope somebody can help me out. I'm trying to create some sort of decoder that will convert a video stream that will act as a video input device so I can use it in Wirecast (video streaming program).
At this stage I use mjpeg IP cameras as video sources using this neat little program that allows me to convert a raw IP address:port into a input device, this works perfectly with unlimited cameras but does not support RTSP nor H.264, I have since upgraded a few cameras so I can get access to HD video.
I have tried a number of RTSP source filters from all over the net, and some programs like xpwebcam to get access to their H.264 filter but no luck as yet. I have tried to create my own filter using GraphStudio but it is beyond my understanding.
The IP cameras video feed URL looks like this..
Video Feed:
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/0/video0
where videoX = 0,1,2 for resolution.
rtsp://user:pass#10.0.0.10/0/video0
or rtsp://#10.0.0.10/0/video0 for non-protected cameras, it's a private network so it does not matter, what ever will work.
I can successfully stream the video feed live using VLC but not much else, I'm not sure if there's a way to turn a stream into a input device.
I have been trying to do this for weeks now but had very little luck in getting it to work.
Please help me :)
As a professional photographer with many years in the field this question struck me as rather interesting. The answer you are looking for can be found at this site:
http://alax.info/blog/1416
The site lists the update you need for your equipment.
If you have no source filter can't you simply read from source and write to a file and have your other program read it from a file simultaneously. I have used such a trick many times on unix. Can't see why it cannot work here.