Question / Help Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpage?

[garycarlyle]

Hi there.

If anybody could help me I would be eternally grateful.

Basically, I have a cloud server and I want to stream videos from a browser on the server, such as chrome, and have the stream embedded on a web-page that essentially will be the client viewer that I can distribute.

The reason being is I have tried optimised RDP software [Ericon Blaze/Citrix] to do the same thing but they still never have decent FPS for video and can cost a lot of money.

Would be better if I could control the server from the same pane on the web-page as the embedded stream but I would not mind having one pane on the web-page for viewing the server and the other for controlling it. All remotely of course.

My budget is basically zero as I have paid good money for the cloud package I have.

I know some Basic web coding like PHP, JS, JSON. It is more the model for how it would be best possible more than technical help I need. Although I havn't used OBS before or really done much streaming. I am a newbie in that sense.

Thanks very much in advance,

~Gary.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpa

Let me get this straight:

* You have a VPS.
* You're running a browser on the VPS.
* The browser is playing back videos.
* You want to capture the videos that the browser is playing back and stream them to a server.
* You want to build a web page with an embedded player that receives streams that are being streamed to the server.
* You want to build a web page that can control the streaming on the VPS.

Is this correct?

 

[garycarlyle]

Re: Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpa

Yes that is correct. Thanks for the clarifying questions.

Those points combined with it having to be dirt cheap or open-source solutions.

Plus the quality of the video has to be good. Not necessarily HD but watchable.

Something like OnLive.com have would be create. They are like the Steam app but instead of downloading games they actually stream the games to a client. I want to do the same thing basically but with general internet content and especially video. Also like Liveon.com, I want it in an app and on a web-page but at least on a webpage so they can remotely control the browser and obviously see what they are browsing.

I think the best way to describe it would be like a super VPN. But I have reasons why a VPN wouldn't work. The content my customers want is nothing dodgy but doesnt play on VPN'ed connections.

Thanks my friend. =)

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpa

Is there a reason you have to capture videos that are playing through the browser? Can they be played in VLC? What is the nature of these videos?

What kind of latency is tolerable?

 

[garycarlyle]

Re: Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpa

Oh and one thing I did try is, capturing the browser on the cloud server with ManyCam and transmitting the stream through Skype to the clients Skype. So basically Skype-Skype. It worked really well. But I couldnt control the remote browser through Skype. I used TeamViewer to control the remote server browser but TeamViewer was terrible for streaming itself.

 

[garycarlyle]

Re: Best way to stream from browser on cloud server to webpa

Is there a reason you have to capture videos that are playing through the browser? Can they be played in VLC? What is the nature of these videos?

What kind of latency is tolerable?

Thanks again for the reply. This project means the world to my daughter and I as it is our family business.

The videos are mostly Geo-restricted TV programs.

VLC would not work for all of them as some are even played in a proprietary player.

Screen capture like I have described seems the only way to be able to watch anything my customers wanted.

Trying TeamViewer again. It is close to being good enough but not quite good enough to watch for any extended period of time. Plus TeamViewer is not brandable enough. It would look better in a web-page or something like that.

~Gary.