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we are currently planning to connect all our offices via webcams selectable from a website. So I guess the setup could be something like this:
Webcam 1 \
Webcam 2 - > Streamserver -> Webserver displaying html5 Video
Webcam n /
I've made first tests from streaming from Windows using VLC to a central ffserver, but the results where rather bad (after 1-2 frames the stream stopped).
Do you have any suggestions on - which stream software I can use on the client/webcam site (Linux or Windows) - which software I can use on the server side (Linux) for collecting and recoding streams?
Thanks,
Moritz
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I would recommend using WebRTC instead of VLC & ffserver.
All you will need for this implementation is a central node server.
And if you did not want to go the webRTC rout you could always just stream right over a socket, but I really think webRTC is the way to go.
from scratch : http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/
using something made to make it a little simpler : http://simplewebrtc.com/
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