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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.

Use RTSP and do not transcode, just remux.

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!

Depends on the source media and the target browser.

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