I have seen plenty of articles and SO questions about streaming TO an iPhone app, but my question is the reverse, that is, streaming FROM an iPhone app.
I have audio content in an iPhone app, that I want to stream to a browser. So the idea is that the browser can connect to a server running on the iphone. The server on the iphone will give the audio to the browser. The browser will play the endless stream.
I already have seamless looping content on the phone with AudioQueue. I already know how to setup a server running on the phone with CocoaHTTPServer. Is there a third piece that can make the AudioQueue (or a FileStream) stream to a browser connected to the internal iPhone server?
Anybody have any thoughts on how to implement this?
Well, there are a few good open source projects to dissect, port, or imitate for this. What I would suggest is looking at how Icecast and streamTranscoderv3 operate together. The latter will take an audio source and send it to an Icecast server as a source. Port parts of both and run them locally on the iPhone and you'd have a solution. I imagine that Bonjour could be used so that other systems on the LAN could find and listen to the iPhone.
Or send the streamTranscoder output to an Icecast server elsewhere and make it available for the world.
Unfortunately, neither project is over engineered - the code isn't super modular but it is comprehensible and modestly cross platform.
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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 .
Is it possible to send audio from iphone to server in real time? I am using AQRecorder which records the data and saves it on a file.I was wondering if there was a way of sending the recorded audio to server in real time.I want to send the audio while it is being recorded.Is it possible? Can we redirect the recorded stream to the server instead of a file?
NOTE:I am using the speak here code from apple https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/speakhere/Listings/Classes_AQRecorder_mm.html
Nate is right. A lot of legitimate apps do that. So, you don't even need to have a jailbroken device.
Take a look at this question: Live streaming audio from iPhone
You may be interested to look into open source SIP clients for iOS:
https://code.google.com/p/siphon/
http://www.pjsip.org
http://www.linphone.org/eng/linphone/news/linphone-for-iphone.html
I'm looking for a way to create an app that will allow captured camera video to be streamed on a computer. For example, one person could be walking an iPhone around a room and another person could have that video streamed on their computer. Something kind of like a one-way Facetime except the receiver is on a computer. Also, I can't just use an existing app as later I would like to change the program to do some computer vision processing on the incoming data.
At the moment, I've found that AV Foundation should be the correct option for the video capture (from this question). However, I'm having difficulty finding the method by which I can actually stream this data. In particular, searching for how to create the apps on the iPhone frequently results in existing apps that do the task, but not how to create the app.
Can anyone give me a pointer to the information on how to stream the video capture from the iPhone? Thank you much.
You can use "Wowza media Server" for Streaming purpose
For wowza media server doenload :
Wowza Download
After installing wowza Now you need to set up live setting in wowza for that purpose you need:
Setting Up Live Application
For iOS side there is library is useful for video streaming using RTMP connection
You can get Library at
RTMP library for Streaming
Library example
RTMP library for Streaming example
In this good example of Streaming from iOS side
I had success with ANGL lib and Wowza media server. It gives smooths RTMP stream.
I have a http streaming link which gives me .flv streaming feed. I want to convert that and access in my iPhone program. How can i do that? I want to have a desktop software like VLC and input this streaming feed URL and convert to iPhone supported and stream again to iPhone. I tried VLC with H.264 and Mpeg-1 audio, but seems to be it doesn't give the supported format, so as iPhone program doesn't play the video.
Could someone please guide me how can i setup a desktop software which can stream iPhone supported file?
Thanks in advance.
I think even the great VLC can't convert FLV on the fly...(or even do anything with FLV). As far as streaming goes, you'll probably be limited to the local network (Wi-Fi). I'd start with the simple way—create an ad-hoc file server on the desktop, then use AVPlayer's initWithURL method to find that video.
On the desktop, you could query the IP address of the computer, and ask the user to enter that URL (along with an optional port assignment and file component, like http://192.168.0.2:2234/streamingVideo.mp4) onto the iDevice, then convert to NSURL.
What exactly is the http streaming link? This matters a lot as in order to stream to the iPhone you need to use HTTP Live Streaming which requires some different bits than a typical flash media, or more properly RTMP, server. Typically you need two different streaming architectures or some expensive boxes.
I want to be able to (live) stream the frames/video FROM the iPhone camera to the internet. I've seen in a Thread (streaming video FROM an iPhone) that it's possible using AVCaptureSession's beginConfiguration and commitConfiguration. But I don't know how to start designing this task. There are already a lot of tutorials about how to stream video TO the iPhone, and it is not actually what I am searching for.
Could you guys give me any ideas which could help me further?
That's a tricky one. You should be able to do it, but it won't be easy.
One way that wouldn't be live (not answering your need, but worth mentioning) is to capture from the camera and save it to a video file. see the AV Foundation Guide on how to do that. Once saved you can then use the HTTP Live Streaming segmenter to generate the proper segments. Apple has applications for Mac OSX, but there's an open source version as well that you could adapt for iOS. On top of that, you'd also have to run an http server to serve those segments. Lots of http servers out there you could adapt.
But to do it live, first as you have already found, you need to collect frames from the camera. Once you have those you want to convert them to h.264. For that you want ffmpeg. Basically you shove the images to ffmpeg's AVPicture, making a stream. Then you'd need to manage that stream so that the live streaming segmenter recognized it as a live streaming h.264 device. I'm not sure how to do that, and it sounds like some serious work. Once you've done that, then you need to have an http server, serving that stream.
What might actually be easier would be to use an RTP/RTSP based stream instead. That approach is covered by open source versions of RTP and ffmpeg supports that fully. It's not http live streaming, but it will work well enough.