Current best practice to stream live video in web browser?

Question

We develop an IP camera product which streams H.264/MPEG4/MJPEG video via RTSP/UDP. It has a web interface, currently we use the VLC Firefox plugin to allow viewing of the live

Answer 1

Well, I had to do the same thing while back in a raspberry pi 3. we transcoded it on the fly using ffmpeg on the pi and used https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg to stream mjpeg. then played it on the browser/ionic app.

var canvas = document.getElementById('video-canvas');
this.player = new JSMpeg.Player(this.button.url ,{canvas: canvas});

We were managing up to 4 concurrent streams with minimum delay <2-5 secs on our Pis.

But once we moved to React Native we used the RN VLC wrapper on the phones