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I’ve searched and read all the posts I can find, but I don’t think I get it. We have an extron SMP that provides us with a multicast live RTP stream. This stream can be viewed from any computer on our network using VLC Player. Now we want to play this stream in our browser.

I know that you cannot natively play the stream and must convert it real time to an HTML compatible version. This is where I am having issues.

I have attempted to use the program ‘udpxy’ which converted the multicast stream to an H264 HTTP Stream, but I could never find an HTML player that would play the stream. It worked in VLC, But the ‘video’ tag, videoJS, not jwplayer would work.

I also attempted to use nginx and the nginx rtmp module and failed miserably. Could never get nginx to serve a stream.

Could some elaborate on the method that I need to use to convert the multicast RTP stream to an HTML5 compliant stream.

S. Walker
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HTML5 Video does not support RTP streaming, so feed into streaming server(NMS) like FLV for flvjs, or forward to h264 rtsp proxy(Simple RTSP Server) for WebRTC streamer.

Node Media Server and SRS projects are avaliable in github. both work second latency performance in standard HTML5 Video validated.

Lo Vega
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You may find interesting to have a look at http://live555.com/hlsProxy/ which converts an RTSP/RTP stream to HLS and your web browser client might be able to play it natively. There is also a Javascript library https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/ that can help.

However don't expect to have a very low latency with HLS.

Fryz
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