Now that the NPAPI that the VLC plugin uses is being discontinued in Firefox and that Google Chrome has discontinued the NPAPI for long is there any solution to stream RTSP live video inside these browsers?
51.8k 12 12 gold badges 89 89 silver badges 145 145 bronze badges asked Oct 12, 2015 at 12:15 Tiago Dias Tiago Dias 585 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 12 12 bronze badgesNot an answer but maybe worth a shot: Looking into VLC's livehttp module which enables you to segment streams and deliver them through html5 video. In this post I explain the general setup: stackoverflow.com/a/6348741/693052 the part on segmenting can be interchanged with VLC's livehttp module. Maybe this leads you somewhere. It is possible however the codecs and (in)compatibilities will be a pain to handle.
Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 9:01Thanks for your input. Transcoding the RTSP streams to HTML5 video would solve the problem but introduces other issues that are unacceptable in some cases: - latency due to the transcoding operation and HTTP protocol used with HTML5 video is not compatible with Live video streams where you can control / move the cameras around - if you have a large set of video cameras and viewers the transcoding infrastructure becomes expensive - network optimizations used with RTSP, namely Multicast, will probably not be supported in these scenarios