Streaming ffmpeg with nodejs on web sockets to html
Monday, March 30th, 2015
The last months we (with Sergi Lario) had some fun implementing a GUI to control a media server done by playmodes. We used web technologies and had the need to stream the content of the media server to our app. This article gave us the inspiration about how to easily stream video from ffmpeg to HTML5 canvas.
In resume, data gets streamed from ffmpeg through web sockets and is received frame by frame as Motion JPEG. Then we encoded the images as Base64, sent them over web sockets to the frontend and draw them to HTML. (more…)
