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video-streaminghtml5-videovlc
balazs
balazs

Reputation: 5788

Streaming mp4 with vlc to html browser

I have problems streaming my webcam picture (without sound) to a html page. I'm using the latest (v2.0.2 vlc for windows) for streaming, here's the command line:

"c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -I dummy  dshow:// --dshow-vdev="Logitech QuickCam Chat" --dshow-adev=none --dshow-caching=0 --sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=1024,channels=1,ab=128,samplerate=44100,width=320}:http{mux=ts,dst=:8080/webcam.mp4}

when I open the stream in another vlc player (http://127.0.0.1:8080/webcam.mp4), I can watch the stream, but when I'm trying to embedding it to a webpage, I can see nothing! here's the code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Video Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <video id="video" class="projekktor" autoplay="autoplay" width="300px" preload="metadata">  
      <source src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/webcam.mp4" />
            Your browser doesn't appear to support the HTML5 <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element.  
    </video>
  </body>
</html>

Than I'm trying to open it in the browser like:

file:///C:/videostreaming/video.html

What I can see in chrome example, is that there's network traffic, the stream is downloading, but nothing displayed.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 87006

Answers (4)

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 191

You can't transmit mp4 over http protocol using VLC

Follow this link to see the Output method / muxer matrix http://www.videolan.org/streaming-features.html

However you can try to transcode to ogg.

Try this:

"c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" \
-I dummy  dshow:// --dshow-vdev="Logitech QuickCam Chat" \
--dshow-adev=none --dshow-caching=0 \
--sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=1024,channels=1,ab=128,samplerate=44100,width=320}:http{dst=:8080/webcam.ogg}

and in your html video tag:

<source src="http://127.0.0.1:8080/webcam.ogg"/>

Upvotes: 19

alba
alba

Reputation: 11

For live streaming you should use following

<video id="video" src="http://localhost:8181/stream" type="video/ogg; codecs=theora" autoplay="autoplay"/>

More at Here's a link!

Please note: Video type "ogg" only!

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Hill
Daniel Hill

Reputation: 311

you're telling VLC to stream in TS format mux=ts this is your problem, you need to mux in mp4

Upvotes: 1

Entrabiter
Entrabiter

Reputation: 782

try adding the type of video (type="video/mp4"): 

<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">
      <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
      <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
      Your browser does not support the video tag.
    </video>

Upvotes: 3

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