RTSP into web page - what is best transcoding

[lazna]

Have streams from camera and want to publish them in the web page. As a HTML5 is codec independent and thus decoding is a browser only issue, I am wondering what codec you suggest me to transcoding stream into. As a my server is relative poor, low CPU transcoding usage (high efective codec) is crucial for me. As a input stream I can choose between RTSP (AAC/H264), and HTTP (mjpeg).

thanks, L.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use RTSP and do not transcode, just remux.

[SRoll]

Hi,

I am also interested about the possibility to re-stream an RTSP stream to a web browser. But I am not very familiar with all the concepts around that.

Let say I want to be able to re-stream this stream rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov in a standard Chrome/Firefox browser using a pure HTML5 solution (js players ok, but no plugins)
Is it possible to do that with VLC without any transcoding? And if yes, how?

Previously, a coworker developed a small service that use FFMpeg to read the stream and send it to the browser in fragmented MP4. And I am very interested to know if there is an easier solution using VLC. I searched a lot on the web but I cannot find anything valuable.

Thanks for your help!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Depends on the source media and the target browser.

[SRoll]

In this case, the source media is an RTSP H.264 stream from an IP camera and the target browser is open: any of the modern browsers.

Hope one day it will be possible using a WASM based decoder