Sending camera video from browser to server

Question

Im trying out the new and exciting features of chrome canary 19.

I can basically grab the video from the web-cam and set it to a source element for a video tag.

Answer 1

You need some kind of streaming media server on the back.

The process would be:

1. capture the feed
2. send it to the server
3. transcode to various client formats
4. manage the outbound streams

There are numerous free and paid varieties available:

• nodejs(demo/POC)
• wowza(paid)
• chrome based

More about transcoding: xuggler
The 'swiss army knife' of media: ffmpeg

and so on.