[Icecast-dev] How to use http-put for JavaScript source client

[Yannick "Modah" Gouez]

Following up on this topic ( sorry if this starts a new thread but I just
joined the ml ),

I do no understand why it is not possible to use the audio stream from
webRTC's getUserMedia and then send it over a websocket ?

It seems that the webRTC implementation can natively encode in ogg format
in stereo from any interface ( according to
https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/tree/master/RecordRTC ).
Why wouldnt it be suitable ?

In the other, I assume, like Jamie, that there is a way to send it over a
PUT request. Isnt it ?

y.

> Hi Jamie,
>
> The webRTC API does not sound suitable for source->server streaming
> for many reason. For instance, the peer-to-peer connection requires
> input from both end and seems quite unfeasible to implement in a
> server. Likewise, codecs are completely abstracted and much more.
>
> In reality, webRTC is an API to acheive full-duplex conversations a-la
> skype and not for streaming.
>
> For these reasons, we at liquidsoap have been working on implementing
> a simple websocket protocol for sending source streams from a browser
> to a server. The protocol is documented and implemented there:
>   https://github.com/savonet/webcast
>
> We also have a pull request on liquidsoap that implements the protocol
> and should be merged fairly soon:
>   https://github.com/savonet/liquidsoap/pull/90
>
> The bottlenecks right now are the availability of the Web Audio API,
> which is only partially implemented in firefox and the encoding speed.
>
> Because there is no native encoding API for browser-side javascript,
> we have (temporarily?) resorted to using javascript-compiled libraries
> for mp3 encoding. However, only firefox seems to show suitable
> performances for mp3 encoding, using the libshine build and thanks to
> its asm.js support.
>   https://github.com/savonet/shine/tree/master/js
>
> On the other hand, only chrome implements the adequate Web Audio API,
> but is too slow to encode :-o
>
> All in all, if we keep forging, it is very likely that once mozilla
> finishes implementing the web audio API, we should have a function
> browser source client using firefox. And Chrome when their asm.js
> perfs improve as well.
>
> Romain
> 2013/7/23 Jamie McClelland <jm at mayfirst.org <http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev>>:
> >* I'm following up on a thread started by Stephen a couple months ago about*>* building a JavaScript source client using webrtc.*>**>* The first step suggested was to figure out how to mux the audio and video.*>* After I posted a feature request on the webrtc experiment js library, we*>* seem to have a solution:*>* https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment/issues/28#issuecomment-20791759*>**>* Based on the last comment on the icecast Dec list, we now only need to do do*>* an HTTP put request to the icecast server (*>* http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2013-May/002171.html).*>**>* Great! I've got my jquery ready, but am having trouble finding docs on how*>* to build the put request. I tried looking at the libshout source, but my c*>* skills aren't quite good enough to figure it out.*>**>* Any help would be appreciated, particularly with an example.*>**>* Thanks for all your work on icecast - we use it a lot here at May*>* First/People Link.*>**>* Jamie*>**>* _______________________________________________*>* Icecast-dev mailing list*>* Icecast-dev at xiph.org <http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev>*>* http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast-dev*>
>
>
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