Well I was hoping to not have to use a commercial product. From the front page, "Ultra Low Latency WebRTC" is supported only in the Enterprise Edition. I may as well use Flash.
"8-12 seconds End-to-End Latency" for community edition.
Actually a commercial product is not necessarily a problem, but the monthly fees are. If there was a one time fee version (perhaps with limited number of clients or something), then this might work.
I used jsmpeg to live stream camera feeds from robots. There are a few others that do the same. In my case I wrote a custom go server to handle the multiplexing. It did fairly well, and was able to support something like 60 clients at a time. This was a weekend project and I don't have time to keep the reobots on line so I will leave you with some video of a early client I build. There are some other videos showing the robots off on my channel.
I also poked a round with making a real time remote desktop client that could be access via a web browser for linux. It to -- at least on local lans got very low latency video. The link for that is below too.
Edit: I should mention latency were measured in ms, not seconds, even for many clients. I am sure to scale out to 1000's of users I would have to add a bit, of latency but not by much.
Oh yeah, I saw that. I'm also hoping to be able to use the h.264 compression hardware built into the SoC we're using and it was my understanding that jsmpeg was MPEG1 only.
That being said, the ffmpeg solution is not using the hardware accelerator either, even though it does support MJPEG. But I think with work we can get a gstreamer based solution: the missing part is an equivalent of ffserver that works with gstreamer. The hardware vendors like to provide gstreamer plug-ins for their accelerators.
Also, it's weird to me that this needs a giant javascript client library. What about the HTML5 built-in video support?
If you are using mpeg1 you can just dump the packets on the line. And if you want to get fancy you can read in a HQ stream and setup a beefy server to run 3 or 4 conversions to different bandwith classes and move clients up and down as required.
My code is geared to robots -- and has not been updated recently but there is at least a example of the simpler multiplexing in go.
"8-12 seconds End-to-End Latency" for community edition.
Actually a commercial product is not necessarily a problem, but the monthly fees are. If there was a one time fee version (perhaps with limited number of clients or something), then this might work.