Questions tagged [video-streaming]

Video streaming is the process of delivering a video from a server to a client. This is different from simply downloading the entire video file, as the client is able to watch the video while it's being downloaded.

Video streaming is the process of delivering a video from a server to a client. This is different from simply downloading the entire video file, as the client is able to watch the video while it's being downloaded.

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rtsp stream capturing

I'm looking for some universal way to dump rtsp stream. I want to figure out, that some rtsp stream is working well and server is sending some watchable video. openRTSP At first, google recommends me openRTSP tool. openRTSP -4 ${stream_link} >…
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how to create a readable stream from a remote url in nodejs?

on nodejs documentation, the streams section says I can do fs.createReadStream(url || path). But, when I actually do that It tells me Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory. I just want to pipe the video from a readable to a writable stream, But…
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Stream live video from phone to phone using socket fd

I am new to android programming and have found myself stuck I have been researching various ways to stream live video from phone to phone and seem to have it mostly functional, except of course the most important part: playing the stream. It…
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Live video streaming with HTML 5?

I want to make live video streaming. For example there is discussion. And somebody is recording it. I want the video record to appear on my web page. I want to do this with HTML 5. I don't know if it's possible, but has anyone tried ? Thank you in…
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WebRTC pause and resume stream

I am trying to use WebRTC to build a web application that needs to pause/resume the video/audio stream when some events trigger. I have tried the getTracks()[0].stop() but I am not sure how to resume the stream. Are there any advice on that? thanks
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Streaming mp4 with vlc to html browser

I have problems streaming my webcam picture (without sound) to a html page. I'm using the latest (v2.0.2 vlc for windows) for streaming, here's the command line: "c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -I dummy dshow:// --dshow-vdev="Logitech…
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How do you configure S3 and Cloud Front to stream HTML5 video? Tried everything

I've tried many, many different configurations, files, encoding, browsers, etc..., but this is the simplest example that demonstrates the problem I am having. If you paste the url for the sample video for JSPlayer in FF 8.0.1, the video plays…
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Writing an app to stream video to iPhone

I'm interested in creating an iPhone app that can stream video from a central server, YouTube style. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to do this before, what is the path of least resistant, existing APIs, etc? I really know nothing about how…
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How to receive a webcam video stream in flask route?

I'm developing an application that has a client(html&js) and a server(flask) The client will open the Webcam(HTML5 api) -> send a video stream to server -> server will return other streams with a json/text stream I don't want to do pooling. I was…
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How to serve HLS streams from S3 in secure way (authorized & authenticated)

Problem: I am storing number of HLS streams in S3 with given file structure: Video1 ├──hls3 ├──hlsv3-master.m3u8 ├──media-1 ├──media-2 ├──media-3 ├──media-4 ├──media-5 ├──hls4 ├──hlsv4-master.m3u8 …
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HLS 'EVENT' playlists failing to start in players

I have HLS playlists that look like…
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What's the technology behind live stream sites?

It's amazing to notice that live stream sites like doitlive.tv can deliver videos on very low bandwidth (as low as 25kbps) home connection. Could someone explain me the technology behind such sites and how they managed to deliver under such low…
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FFMPEG: Transmux mpegts to mp4 gives error: muxer does not support non seekable output

When piping mpegts to ffmpeg, which should convert it to mp4 and pipe to stdout, ffmpeg says: "muxer does not support non seekable output". After a lot of research I came to the conclusion that mp4 is a bad choice for doing those kinds of on-the-fly…
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Synchronization of data with video using WebRTC

I'm using WebRTC to send video from a server to client browser (using the native WebRTC API and an MCU WebRTC server like Kurento). Before sending it to clients each frame of the video contained metadata (like subtitles or any other applicative…
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Installing a TURN Server on Ubuntu for WebRTC

How can I install a TURN server on my ubuntu 12.04? Can you share tutorial? I read this tutorial: Implementing our own STUN/TURN server for WebRTC Application. But what I don't understand is how I can I install my own TURN server on my ubuntu…
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