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RTSP in flash?
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2006-06-30 21:33:18
Wade Arnold wrote:

> I have a desktop application that I am working on that
has one camera that
> it connects at:
> 
> rtsp://127.0.0.1/livefeed
> 
> I have scoured the web and do not see any way of
natively accessing this
> stream from flash. Does anyone know of any third part
flash players that
> allow you to connect to real time streaming protocol? 

You're probably best off seeing if it has a driver that'll
play with the 
Flash Player's native camera support, seeing that it's
running on the 
same machine (localhost).  Failing that....

A long shot might be jumping over to ActionScript 3 and
Flash Player 9 
and doing it yourself by implementing the RTSP protocol and
MPEG4IP 
codec entirely in AS3.  While this is quite possible, if you
go this 
way, be prepared for quite a bit of work and the possibility
of 
lackluster performance given the complexity of decoding a
video stream 
in real-time).  For example of something similar, consider,
Darron 
Schall's FlashVNC client that he built using AS3 in the
fall of last 
year:  http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000192.cfm

Alternatively, you could look into whether it might be
possible to use 
Red5 with a transcoder like FFMPEG to convert the stream
into FLV in a 
separate application before streaming it into your Flash
Player.  As far 
as I know, there hasn't been any announcements of such a
beast, though 
there isn't anything stopping an enterprising and skilled
coder from 
doing this.

Jim

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