I'd like to Stream my Servers Desktop and make it public via example.com/stream
The Stream should include both Video and Audio.
The Server is Win 2008 using zwamp for Apache etc.
As of the Player, anything goes. I was thinking about Flowplayer.
Is there any easy step by step tutorial?
Every Tutorial I found was not really made for my scenario.
If there is any Tutorial which will definitely work for me, please feel free to point me towards it.
Much appreciated!
You could do this by downloading Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder, and do a "screen broadcast", where your server's desktop will be broadcasted. You could get the streaming link to your server's desktop once you start Windows Media Encoder.
Hope this helps.
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First, I wish to emphasize the keyword from. There are a lot of questions and answers on this topic but I found that no answer provide a step by step road-map to achieve this.
What I wish to achieve :
I wish to stream the video and audio (live) being recorded from the camera of iPhone/iPad to my server. And that's it.
What have I figured till now :
I guess that we can't use HTTP live streaming because it's meant for server to client and not client to server. AV framework allows the output only in the form of a mov file.
What am I not able to figure :
I don't know how to get individual frames (live) and send them to my server one by one
PS: I really don't know anything about this... You are welcomed to oversimplify things. I am writing server in node.js
You may take a look at Wowza GoCoder iOS app.
It requires Wowza as the media server though, so you'll be able to provide full-features streaming to anyone you want.
Server side set up is done easily via Wowza configs or by third-party cloud control .
So generally, I want to make an app which has video chat functionality for iPhone. But after many searches, I am still not able to find any successful results. Is there any public or even for that matter, private API available for doing this on iPhone??? If you have an YES answer, please help me.
Basically, what I want is to read the streams of the video on both the devices connected for chatting. Thanks a lot in advance and please help me if you can.
p.s - I have already checked iDoubs but it failed and always shows some unknown problem and for that reason, doesn't allow me to connect to anyone.
ALSO : The suggested method I have found is via HTTP Live Streaming. But, in that too, I have multiple doubts.
1.) I need to find how do I upload my video from iPhone to the HTTP server from where I would be broadcasting?
2.) Can you please post something related to setting up the server? How do I feed the video to the FFMPEG Server?
Mainly, I need to find the upload method. I am right now simply sending hex-code in the form of NSDATA to the server and I am stuck there. The main problem is, It is live. How do I handle that?
It would be best, if you could help me make the iDoubs work properly.
Thank you so much for any kind of support!
have a look on this how to implement video chat in iphone But before starting you must have a IMS server up & running.
here is the live video chat framework what you are looking for. Its easy and simple to implement for face to face video chat. I have already tried this. Its working very fine. Great thing about this framework is multiple platform support.
Tokbox : https://tokbox.com/platform
https://tokbox.com/opentok/tutorials/
Sample Code:
https://github.com/opentok/opentok-ios-sdk-samples/
Edit:
Here is the article explaining opentok using parse.
http://www.iphonegamezone.net/ios-tutorial-create-iphone-video-chat-app-using-parse-and-opentok-tokbox/
HTTP live streaming is primarily an approach for adaptive streaming from server-to-client. For client-to-server rather go for traditional streaming. There exists an open library for streaming, see this question.
Whilst it is possible to facetime to do two-way chat, it is not certain that you will be able to using public iOS APIs. That said, I have implemented one-way live streaming for iPhone and the difficult part was not the core streaming itself, but encoding of the payload. You will be able to do H264 in hardware and AAC / iLBC in software.
How you want to feed this to the FFMPEG depends on your transport, possibly changing from 'file' H264 frames to 'streaming' H264. Check out the H264 frame types if you implement frame dropping; reconfiguring the H264 encoder on-the-fly is not possible to my knowledge, but restarting with fresh parameters typically does not take more than a second or so.
Did you attempt to play back a live resource while capturing? That is a good starting point. If you come across an open API for H264 encoding, please post it here ;-)
I am trying to encode a live stream into Apple HLS for iPhone on windows. I was looking at different options and wowza can do it, but doesn't support CDN distribution of HLS as far as I can see. Plus it costs a lot of money.
What I did find was this site: http://www.espend.de/artikel/iphone-ipad-ipod-http-streaming-segmenter-and-m3u8-windows.html
I can now set up a single bitrate stream easily, but my goal is an adapive multi-bitrate live stream. Is it possible? For VOD content it can easily be accomplished with creating the different qualities then linking to them in a new m3u8, but how would this be done in live?
I can of course set up three quality live streams and link to them in an m3u8, but how will I get them GOP-aligned in this case?
My initial thought was to have one ffmpeg instance create all qualities and re-stream those outputs to new ffmpeg-instances that just remux and pipe to the segmenter. But I would need some way of streaming locally between instances. Can that be done?
If anyone has a nice solution to this, or can link to other software capable of live HLS on windows, I would appreciate any input.
Have a great day!
Regards
Carl
Just to let people know, I ended up using http://www.ioncannon.net/projects/http-live-video-stream-segmenter-and-distributor/ on a linux virtualbox and it works great. I had trouble compiling it, but there were a couple of forks that fixed those problems.
Is there any available open-source (preferred) or commercial library for on-fly segmenting and streaming of video to iPhone / iPad?
Also, is there any open-source/commercial server (alternative to Wowza) which supports this?
Apple offers mediastreamsegmenter:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StreamingMediaGuide/UsingHTTPLiveStreaming/UsingHTTPLiveStreaming.html
You might also want to peek at Best Practices for Creating and Deploying HTTP Live Streaming Media for the iPhone and iPad:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2224/_index.html
There's also Darwin Streaming Server, but you may not need it.
Your first preoccupation should be to try to peek a good segmenter (video speaking): Apple's one is fine.
Then, if you wan't in-memory segmenting, mount the input source folder to a RAMdisk...
Take a look at following link;
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/MoviePlayer_iPhone/Introduction/Intro.html
This example will show how to play videos from a network based URL.
For more details about playing videos;
You can check red5(java & opensource).
Check lastest beta, or code in svn (as lot hav changed since last officeial release).
It may or may not be able to do that out-of-the-box, if not you can code your red5 app and/or check others people code built arround red5...
My partner and I have a webcam site that basically runs the old-school method....Every 0.5 seconds the javascript reloads the image in the browser from the webcam. However we are wanting to upgrade to a streaming media server to get higher quality video, and possibly audio. We aren't tied to any one specific file format or server type, as of right now we are leaning towards slicehost (as scalability is important), and installing darwin streaming server or wowza.
This is meant to be a live stream. Does anyone have any suggestions for hosts/server software?
Wowza is great and they offer an Amazon EC2 setup with micro pricing to make it affordable.
You can always go with Flash Media Server, but that is expensive.
Red5 is free and open source.
UPDATE
Based on your comment, you can also use UStream. It is free and will hook into Flash Encoder, which is also free.
Do you absolutely have to stand up your own streaming server? Services like LiveStream can do what you're talking about for much cheaper than setting up your own hardware.