Streaming mp4 files

[John Anwoh]

Hi all, 

any help with streaming video files eg. mp4 files with easyRTC ?

[Eric Davies]

If you are talking about streaming a video file from another peer, the answer is that WebRTC itself doesn't support that.

If you are talking about streaming a file from a server, you can look into a media server, or you can simply point a video object at the url hosted on your server. 

[Rod Apeldoorn]

Depending on your OS, there are methods to create a fake microphone or webcam linking to an audio or video file/stream. GStreamer, ffmpeg, libav, are all in the linux world. For windows and osx there are even easier ones.

In chrome/firefox you would then just choose to share the fake stream instead of your regular microphone/webcam.

Explaining all the steps to install these is outside of the scope of the forum, but it is possible.

[Francois Baret]

create a fake microphone or webcam linking to an audio or video file/stream

 , said Rod Apeldoorn. Is that the easiest way to stream a file presents on the server?