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Overview
Supported platforms and browsers
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Chrome 66+
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Firefox 59+
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Safari 11.1
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Windows
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Mac OS
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Android
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iOS
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Operation flowchart
1. The browser establishes a connection to the server via the Websocket protocol and sends the publish command.
2. The browser captures the image of
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3. The second browser establishes a connection also via Websokcet and sends the play command.
4. The second browser receives the WebRTC stream and plays the stream on the page.
Quick manual on testing
Capturing a video stream from HTML5 Canvas and preparing for publishing
1. For test we use:
- WCS server demo.flashphoner.com
- Canvas Streaming web application in Chrome browser
2. Press "Start". This starts streaming from HTML5 Canvas on which test video fragment is played:
3. To make shure that stream goes to server, open chrome://webrtc-internals
4. Playback graphs chrome://webrtc-internals
Call flow
Below is the call flow in the Canvas Streaming example
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Flashphoner.createSession(); code
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Flashphoner.createSession({urlServer: url}).on(SESSION_STATUS.ESTABLISHED, function(session){
//session connected, start streaming
startStreaming(session);
}).on(SESSION_STATUS.DISCONNECTED, function(){
setStatus(SESSION_STATUS.DISCONNECTED);
onStopped();
}).on(SESSION_STATUS.FAILED, function(){
setStatus(SESSION_STATUS.FAILED);
onStopped();
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2. Receiving from the server an event confirming successful connection.
ConnectionStatusEvent ESTABLISHED code
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Flashphoner.createSession({urlServer: url}).on(SESSION_STATUS.ESTABLISHED, function(session){
//session connected, start streaming
startStreaming(session);
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2.1. Set up and start HTML5 Canvas capturing
getConstraints(); code
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function getConstraints() {
var constraints;
var stream = createCanvasStream();
constraints = {
audio: false,
video: false,
customStream: stream
};
return constraints;
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createCanvasStream():
set up video capturing from Canvas code
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var canvasContext = canvas.getContext("2d");
var canvasStream = canvas.captureStream(30);
mockVideoElement = document.createElement("video");
mockVideoElement.src = '../../dependencies/media/test_movie.mp4';
mockVideoElement.loop = true;
mockVideoElement.muted = true; |
draw on Canvas with 30 fps code
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mockVideoElement.addEventListener("play", function () {
var $this = this;
(function loop() {
if (!$this.paused && !$this.ended) {
canvasContext.drawImage($this, 0, 0);
setTimeout(loop, 1000 / 30); // drawing at 30fps
}
})();
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playback test video fragment on Canvas code
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mockVideoElement.play(); |
set up audio capturing from Canvas code
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if ($("#sendAudio").is(':checked')) {
mockVideoElement.muted = false;
try {
var audioContext = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
} catch (e) {
console.warn("Failed to create audio context");
}
var source = audioContext.createMediaElementSource(mockVideoElement);
var destination = audioContext.createMediaStreamDestination();
source.connect(destination);
canvasStream.addTrack(destination.stream.getAudioTracks()[0]);
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3. Publishing the stream.
stream.publish(); code
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session.createStream({
name: streamName,
display: localVideo,
cacheLocalResources: true,
constraints: constraints
}).on(STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING, function (stream) {
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED, function () {
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.FAILED, function () {
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}).publish();
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4. Receiving from the server an event confirming successful publishing of the stream.
StreamStatusEvent, status PUBLISHING code
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session.createStream({
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING, function (stream) {
setStatus("#publishStatus", STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING);
playStream();
onPublishing(stream);
}).on(STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED, function () {
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.FAILED, function () {
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}).publish();
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5. Sending the audio-video stream via WebRTC
6. Stopping publishing the stream.
stream.stop(); code
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function stopStreaming() {
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if (publishStream != null && publishStream.published()) {
publishStream.stop();
}
stopCanvasStream();
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stopCanvasStream() code
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function stopCanvasStream() {
if(mockVideoElement) {
mockVideoElement.pause();
mockVideoElement.removeEventListener('play', null);
mockVideoElement = null;
}
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7. Receiving from the server an event confirming successful unpublishing of the stream.
StreamStatusEvent, статус UNPUBLISHED code
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session.createStream({
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING, function (stream) {
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}).on(STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED, function () {
setStatus("#publishStatus", STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED);
disconnect();
}).on(STREAM_STATUS.FAILED, function () {
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}).publish();
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To developer
Capability to capture video stream from an HTML5 Canvas element is available in WebSDK WCS starting from this version of JavaScript API. The source code of the example is located in examples/demo/streaming/canvas_streaming/.
You can use this capability to capture your own video stream rendered in the browser, for example:
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var audioStream = new window.MediaStream();
var videoStream = videoElement.captureStream(30);
var audioTrack = videoStream.getAudioTracks()[0];
audioStream.addTrack(audioTrack);
publishStream = session.createStream({
name: streamName,
display: localVideo,
constraints: {
customStream: audioStream
},
});
publishStream.publish(); |
Capturing from a video-element works in Chrome:
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constraints.customStream = videoElement.captureStream(30); |
Capturing from a canvas-element works in Chrome 66, Firefox 59 and Mac OS Safari 11.1:
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constraints.customStream = canvas.captureStream(30); |
Known issues
1. Capturing from an HTML5 Video element does not work in Firefox and Safari.
Solution: use this capability only in the Chrome browser.
2. In the Media Devices when performing HTML5 Canvas capturing:
- in Firefox, the local video does not display what is rendered;
- in Chrome, the local video does not display black background.
Solution: take browser specific behavior into account during development.
3. If the web applicaiton is inside an iframe element, publishing of the video stream may fail.
Symptoms: IceServer errors in the browser console.
Solution: put the app out of iframe to an individual page.
4. If publishing of the stream goes under Windows 10 or Windows 8 and hardware acceleration is enabled in the Google Chrome browser, bitrate problems are possible.
Symptoms: low quality of the video, muddy picture, bitrate shown in chrome://webrtc-internals is less than 100 kbps.
Solution: turn off hardware acceleration in the browser, switch the browser of the server to use the VP8 codec.
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