[Live-devel] The LIVE555 WebRTC demo is up again (sort of :-(

[Ross Finlayson]

Our WebRTC demonstration - at http://webrtc.live555.com/ - is working once again, sort of.  (It works for the Chrome and Opera browser, but I wasn’t able to get it to work for recent versions of the Firefox browser.)

My apologies for the long delay in bringing this back up.  Unfortunately the FFMPEG API for encoding/decoding changed significantly recently, and it took me a while to adapt our “FramedFilter” subclass code to work with the new FFMPEG API.

But now the bad news: I’ve decided not to continue work on this code, because I now feel it’s a ‘dead end’; WebRTC is not, IMHO, the best way to make RTSP streams viewable on Web browsers.

(At some point in the future, though, I may decide to release the FFMPEG interface code (used by the WebRTC demo to transcode incoming H.264 (or MPEG-4 or MJPEG) video streams into VP8) as open source, as it’s likely to be of general use to people who want to use FFMPEG with LIVE555 code.)


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/