The web, mostly stackoverflow.com, is full of outdated informations, so I'm getting crazy to find a working example in 2020.
The webserver, which also is a RTSP to http video stream converter, is an ubuntu 20.08 VM, with apache and cvlc.
The demo html page is very simple:
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<BODY>
<video id="video" autoplay="autoplay" controls>
<source src="http://192.168.160.189:8080/stream">
</video>
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cvlc -v rtsp://192.168.132.170:554/s2 :network-caching=1000 ':sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=1600,scale=1,acodec=none}:http{mux=ogg,dst=:8080/stream}' :no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout-standard-sap :sout-keep
Audio is not needed.
In Firefox this page works without problems. But in Chrome it starts with a green screen for 10 seconds, the I see some frames of the image, then the video freezes. Safari on MacOS only display the video controls, but no video. Not tested with Edge.
So, my questions are
- How can I adjust the cvlc commandline to stream to all browsers?
- Where is http{mux=ogg,dst=:8080/stream} documented in the VLC documentation? I cannot find it.
Giovanni