使用FFMPEG将实时网络摄像头AV源传输到wowza

Question

I have been trying to find out how to live stream my webcam feed to my wowza server. I am trying to make a web application in php that lets users stream live video through their webcam.

I am confused, if i need to install FFMPEG in every user's computer that uses my application or just installing it in my web server will do??

Thank you in advance. A little help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

The user's webcam stream is on the client-side and the problem is getting that stream from each client to your server so having FFmpeg on the server won't help you a lot.

This is achieved by using some form of browser plugin, like Flash or Silverlight and hopefully in a near future using directly HTML5 / WebRTC.

For Wowza you can use the FlashRTMPPlayer . Here's the documentation showing how to record a webcam feed and how to setup a live video chat application which is probably a good starting point for your live streaming application.

There are some other libraries that can do the same. Search for webcam Flash RTMP capture.