RasPi to ffmpeg or gstreamer to EasyRTC??

[Shane Weddle]

Hello,

I have a Raspberry Pi with a USB web cam and gstreame installed and working... is there a way I can send the stream to EasyRTC using gstreame?? or maybe ffmpeg??? 

Any Ideas?? else maybe what i have below...

I have seen lots of talk about "Janus-gateway"..
1) I'm not sure I understand it in full, it may be that i need to send a stream to a Janus-gateway and then have the Janus-gateway send it to my EasyRTC server/room, can that be done?? 
.. If 1 works would it be best to just stop using EasyRTC all together and just use Janus-gateway as my WebRTC server?? (I like and know EasyRTC) 

Over all I would like to stream directly EasyRTC but not sure if that can be done without the gateway.

ehh my brain it hurts.. thanks for the help!!!

Shane

[Eric Davies]

We haven't tried it.

You'd need to reimplement the client side easyrtc.js in some language on the PI.

Anybody else want to share their experiences with the same?

[saurav...@gmail.com]

Hi Shane,
I have tried the same thing as you, to use webrtc over RPi for a video con. My take on the topic is mentioned below.
1.I tried with Raspbian by installing gstream and then some coding with python but I was not successful.
2.Then I thought of creating client itself with the help of webkit gtk but i stopped it as it took significant effort from my daily work.
3. In the mean time I got one BPi(Banana Pi) and installed Lubuntu on it. It has a chromium in it. I tried to have a video call between my laptop and BPi with a usb camera connected to my TV through HDMI, it finally worked!!  But video was lagging(may be due to the amount of resources taken by Lubuntu). Now I am in the process of installing a custom version of arch linux + Lxde + mozilla firefox to test it again. If it works , then I can install the mozilla firefox on Rpi version of arch linux and it can really solve the problem as it will be as good as accessing firefox from laptop/desktop. The only concern is speed of the tiny CPU of RPi but with overclock, the problem can be solved to some extent. Also a better RPi, 1gb RAM and 900MHz quad core processor is available for pre order.
Hope my reply helps you in someway !!  

[Shane Weddle]

Eric and Saurav, thanks for the reply...

Eric,

- "reimplement the client side easyrtc.js in some language"..
     - Tempting but not but not that much time in my day and it may be out of my skill set. (but yu never know I may go down that road)  Thanks its good to know where to start.

Saurav,

- "I tried with Raspbian by installing gstream and then some coding with python "....
    - Think this is what I will stick with, I don't need the Pi to load a GUI and show the other users image.. just the Pi sending its webcam too all others...
    - I am thinking I will get it working with Janus-Gateway and im hoping it can send the stream over to EasyRTC.
P.S... good to know about Lubuntu and the BPi, I have one on the way.

Thanks Again

Shane

[Eric Davies]

We tend to figure that same thing: it would be neat to have, but a lot of work to get there. 

[saurav...@gmail.com]

Hi Shane,
I am trying the gstreame and python stuff but it may take some more time as I am already working on lots of stuff. But I will update on this forum if I succeed.
If you get a success before that , please do let me know so that I wont have to spend on something which you have already solved!!

Warm Regards,
Saurav