mbebenita/Broadway — Issue #9: Adapting Broadway to playback live video streams
Author: BenjaminXiao
Created: 2012-02-28 01:56:12+00:00
State: open

I am trying to get broadway to work with a HTTP live video stream coming from VLC. My goal is to get a webcam feed displayed in the browser without any plugins.

Now I am aware that XHR does not support progressive download and as such does not support live streams. Is there a way around this? I am willing to contribute some development time to get live streaming to work with Broadway as I think it could be very valuable for things like TV streams or videoconferencing solutions. However I need some pointers:
1.) Is live streaming possible at all with Broadway?
2.) Is there an alternative to XHR that lets me do live streaming? I am thinking of using WebSocket and creating a custom streaming server that sends a video stream using it.
3.) If I do use WebSocket, which areas of the Broadway code do I need to modify in order for it to get the video data?

Thanks!
Ben