I'm new to video streaming and I've been reading up on media servers to get a better understanding of how they work. A customer of mine is planning to purchase approximately 48 video cameras for installation in their facility. They haven't yet decided on the model of camera but I do know that one model they're considering outputs video in WebM format (VP8 and Vorbis or Opus). If I understand correctly, this video format could be viewed in a browser that supports WebRTC (e.g., Chrome) without any kind of plugin. My customer would ideally like to have their users to connect to a web site, authenticate and then see all 48 video streams displayed at a very low resolution in a grid. Choosing a particular video stream would then display that stream at full resolution (they say 480p is the max resolution they're expecting). As I understand it, there will be 3 - 5 users who might want to view the list of video streams simultaneously.
I've done some research into Kurento Media Server and I think I could accomplish this design using it but I'm not totally certain. Assuming that the output of the cameras doesn't need to be transcoded to be compatible with WebRTC, I would need one WebRtcEndpoint for each camera, right? Beyond that, I'm not exactly sure how I would I architect the media pipelines in such as way to allow multiple users to view low-res versions of all 48 video streams simultaneously? Can anyone tell me if this is feasible with Kurento Media Server?
