The example of video chat with screen sharing

The example may be used for video chat between two participants with sharing screen of one of  them. The chat participant can publish stream of these types:

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WebRTC stream from web camera and, simultaneously, WebRTC stream from screen or application window.

Example of client streaming its' screen in Chrome browser window:

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Example of client playing screen stream in Chrome browser window:

Chrome browser extension setup described in Screen Sharing.

The code of the example

The source code of the example is on WCS server by this path:

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The example can be tested at this URL:

https://host:8888/client2/examples/demo/streaming/video-chat-and-screen-sharing/video-chat-and-screen-sharing.html

where host is your WCS server address.

Analyzing the code

To analyze the code get video-chat-and-screen-sharing.js file version with hash 66cc393 hash 35a4234 that can be found here and is available to download in build 2.0.5.28.2753.133177.

1. API initializing.

Flashphoner.init() code

    try {
        Flashphoner.init({);
    } catch(e) {
       flashMediaProviderSwfLocation: '../../../../media-provider.swf',
            screenSharingExtensionId: extensionId
     $("#notifyFlash").text("Your browser doesn't support WebRTC technology needed for this example");
        return;
    });

2. Connection to the server

Flashphoner.roomApi.connect() code

    connection = Flashphoner.roomApi.connect({urlServer: url, username: username}).on(SESSION_STATUS.FAILED, function(session){
        setStatus('#status', session.status());
        onLeft();
    }).on(SESSION_STATUS.DISCONNECTED, function(session) {
        setStatus('#status', session.status());
        onLeft();
    }).on(SESSION_STATUS.ESTABLISHED, function(session) {
        setStatus('#status', session.status());
        joinRoom();
    });

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ConnectionStatusEvent ESTABLISHED code

    connection = Flashphoner.roomApi.connect({urlServer: url, username: username}).on(SESSION_STATUS.FAILED, function(session){
        ...
    }).on(SESSION_STATUS.DISCONNECTED, function(session) {
        ...
    }).on(SESSION_STATUS.ESTABLISHED, function(session) {
        setStatus('#status', session.status());
        joinRoom();
    });

4. Joining to the room

connection.join() code

To join, name of the conference room is passed to the method. (The name can be specified as parameter in the URL of the client page; otherwise, random name will be generated.)

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5. Receiving the event describing chat room state

RoomStatusEvent STATE code

On this event:

• the length of the array of Participant objects returned by method Room.getParticipants() is determined to get the number of already connected participants
• if the maximum allowed number of participants had already been reached, the user leaves the "room"
• otherwise, the user starts publishing video stream

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6. Screen streaming

room.publish() code

These parameters are passed to room.publish() method:

• video constraints: width, height, FPS, source (screen)
• page element to display preview

    var constraints = {
        video: {
            width: parseInt($('#width').val()),
            height: parseInt($('#height').val()),
            frameRate: parseInt($('#fps').val()),
         },
   withoutExtension: true
        },
        audio: $("#useMic").prop('checked')
    };
    constraints.video.type = "screen";
    if (Browser.isFirefox()){
        constraints.video.mediaSource = "screen";
    }
    room.publish({
        display: document.getElementById("preview"),
        constraints: constraints,
        name: "screenShare",
        cacheLocalResources: false
        ...
    });

7. Receiving the event notifying that other participant joined to the room

RoomStatusEvent JOINED code

    connection.join({name: getRoomName()}).on(ROOM_EVENT.STATE, function(room){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.JOINED, function(participant){
        installParticipant(participant);
        addMessage(participant.name(), "joined");
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.LEFT, function(participant){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.PUBLISHED, function(participant){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.FAILED, function(room, info){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.MESSAGE, function(message){
        ...
    });

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RoomStatusEvent PUBLISHED code

    connection.join({name: getRoomName()}).on(ROOM_EVENT.STATE, function(room){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.JOINED, function(participant){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.LEFT, function(participant){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.PUBLISHED, function(participant){
        playParticipantsStream(participant);
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.FAILED, function(room, info){
        ...
    }).on(ROOM_EVENT.MESSAGE, function(message){
        ...
    });

9. Playback of video stream.

participant.play() code

<div> element, in which the video will be displayed depending on source (web camera or screen), is passed to the participant.play() method.

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10. Stop of streaming.

stream.stop() code

function onMediaPublished(stream) {
    $("#localStopBtn").text("Stop").off('click').click(function()room.publish(options).on(STREAM_STATUS.FAILED, function (stream) {
        $(this).prop('disabled', true);...
    }).on(STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING, function (stream) {
        stream.stop();
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     }).prop('disabled', false);
    ...
}

11. Receiving the event confirming successful streaming stop.

StreamStatusEvent UNPUBLISHED code

    room.publish({
    * User can stop sharing screen capture using Chrome "stop" button.
         display: document.getElementById("preview"),* Catch onended video track event and stop publishing.
        constraints: constraints,*/
        name: "screenShare",
document.getElementById(stream.id()).srcObject.getVideoTracks()[0].onended = function (e) {
           cacheLocalResources: false
 stream.stop();
        };
        ...
    }).on(STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED, function(stream) {
        ...
    });

11. Receiving the event confirming successful streaming stop.

StreamStatusEvent UNPUBLISHED code

    room.publish(options).on(STREAM_STATUS.FAILED, function (stream) {
        ...
    }).on(STREAM_STATUS.PUBLISHING, function (stream) {
        ...
    }).on(STREAM_STATUS.UNPUBLISHED, function(stream) {
        onStopSharing();
    });

12. Leaving chat room.

room.leave() code

function onJoined(room) {
    $("#joinBtn").text("Leave").off('click').click(function(){
        $(this).prop('disabled', true);
        room.leave().then(onLeft, onLeft);
    }).prop('disabled', false);
    ...
}