This project intends to allow an endpoint user to submit RTMP live video streaming directly using web browser and getUserMedia, without installing additional software. Currently, only Firefox with MediaRecorder API is supported.
Start the server by npm install and node server.js, then open firefox to http://127.0.0.1:8888/ . The rtmp stream will be submitted to rtmp://127.0.0.1/live by default.
Please make sure there's an rtmp server up and running; try nginx-rtmp-module if you don't have one.
In production, the server should limit what the client can choose to push stream to.
From getUserMedia, MediaRecorder, via socket.io to nodejs, then to ffmpeg transcoding and publishing to rtmp. You can guess what happened in between.
This is still a relatively primitive project, and a lot of work still need to be done.
- No Audio Yet
The audio stream is corrupted due to timestamp issues if streamed directly. Should be resolved if ffmpeg is configured properly.
- No Chrome Yet
Beside MediaRecorder implementation issue, Chrome forces getUserMedia to be requested over SSL. (will deal with that later)
- No resolution adjustment on server-side yet
The server should allow resizing the output video. (coming soon)
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Configurable server with SSL (coming soon)
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Configurable client (coming soon)
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socket.iohas bad efficiency doing binary websocket
Should migrate to raw websocket (later).
- Rate-limiting
Consider automatically adjust upstream rate via WebSocket bufferedAmount attribute. (Note that locally the rate can only be adjusted by video size...)