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Video player for browser that is able to play realtime low latency h264 video stream from websocket.

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Stream realtime h264 video directly to the browser. Comes with a browser player, and streaming server. Based of h264-live-player that uses Broadway decoder. Ideal for for Raspberry pi cam streaming.

Usage

Server:

const AvcServer = require('ws-avc-player/lib/server')
const WebSocketServer = require('uws').Server
const wss = new WebSocketServer({ port: 3333 })
const avcServer = new AvcServer(wss, 640, 480)

avcServer.setVideoStream(h264Stream)

More detailed in example/index.js

Client:

<html>
  <body>
    <!-- define the canvas -->
    <canvas id='cam' style="width:100%; height:75vw;">
    <!-- provide WSAvcPlayer -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/WSAvcPlayer.js" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var canvas = document.getElementById('cam')
      // Create h264 player
      var wsavc = new WSAvcPlayer(canvas, "webgl", 1, 35);

      wsavc.connect("ws://" + document.location.host+":3333");
    </script>    
  </body>
</html>

More detailed in example/html/index.html

Running the demo

git clone https://github.com/matijagaspar/ws-avc-player
cd ws-avc-player
npm install
npm run example

# browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ for a demo player

then run

ffmpeg -framerate 30 -video_size 640x480 -f [driver] -i [device]  -vcodec libx264 -vprofile baseline -b:v 500k -bufsize 600k -tune zerolatency -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 15 -g 30 -f rawvideo tcp://localhost:5000

or

raspivid -t 0 -w 640 -h 480 -hf -fps 15 -o - | nc localhost 5000

alternatively run:

npm run example raspivid

It will automatically run raspivid too

TODO:

  • Decoder as worker
  • More docs
  • More cleanup
  • Audio
  • Ability to change video resolution or better parse sps/pps

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