Streaming

[Vanilla]

Well...i've been working some months on an ambitious secret project of mine, which essentially is going to be a mix between activeCollab and Adobe Acrobat/ConnectNow. Now, i've actually already come quite a long way with the project, but then i've run into problems:

The project is going to have a conferencial-meeting room (ConnectNow alike), it's all based on AJAX-technologies.

Now, I also want to have a webcam chat feature (conferencing), but almost all flash webcam chats that i know of have some underlaying software installed on the server (Such as Adobe Media Server or the Open Source alternative, Red5. But as stated, these requires the beforementioned software installed on the server, and almost all non-vps hosted users don't have the possibility to do such.

I've then begun looking at some PHP/HTML5/Ajax alternatives for video/video/sound streaming modules, and found xmoov, but this also requires itself to be installed either as a standalone server or on an already configured server. The problems are the same as above.

Regarding what i initially really wanted was a way to make a Peer-to-Peer connection, that doesn't rely on underlaying server technologies except for Apache/PHP. Initially, i found Adobe Stratus, which supposedly should be able to do, what i want to do, but not only does this rely on flash, but it's also in beta (for god knows how long - since 2008), and thus still useless.

So....does anyone know any script or software that can do what i want to do? Whilst making use of only common server technologies (Apache/PHP). Or will i have to wait for about 13 years for HTML5, or cancel the entire module?

Cheers!
- Vanilla

[Zach]

You could write your own. . . but that's about it.


What kind of configuration does xmoov need?

[HiddenKnowledge]

wait for about 13 years for HTML5, or cancel the entire module?

Did you actually read that article?

[Vanilla]

wait for about 13 years for HTML5, or cancel the entire module?

Did you actually read that article?

Yeah i did, and what i wrote was meant in a rhetorical way (as in it's gonna take a long time), as i need my application to be a cross-browser application with support for even Internet Explorer. It might very well be that html5 will be nicely implemented in some years or less, but this is still beyond my timeframe. I'm looking at what's available right now.

You could write your own. . . but that's about it.


What kind of configuration does xmoov need?

Found out, it doesn't need any kind of setup at all. But i tried setting it up on my test-server, and only after a decent amount of struggle was i able to get the HTTP-streaming of a video. It actually worked nice enough and my problem is thus partially solved.

But i still need a decent way of streaming it between to clients without having to get concerned over compatibility, latency and cpu/ram-intensitivity. So...i've concluded that I will try to port some of the features of xmoov into a c++ cgi-module, and see how it turns out.

[KSubedi]

ok you can host the site in your own pc using some simple softwares like WAMP - http://www.wampserver.com/en/ or XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html to host the site in ur own pc. for some installation information, you can see a article in creating board forum in your own pc at http://ksubedi.co.cc/run-a-board-forum-o...d-php-490/ . so you can install all the required softwares to stream your media at your own pc and run your application successfully! dont worry if u have a dynamic ip at ur home cuz u can use the dynamic redirect function from http://freedns.afraid.org . Best of luck

[Vanilla]

ok you can host the site in your own pc using some simple softwares like WAMP - http://www.wampserver.com/en/ or XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html to host the site in ur own pc. for some installation information, you can see a article in creating board forum in your own pc at http://ksubedi.co.cc/run-a-board-forum-o...d-php-490/ . so you can install all the required softwares to stream your media at your own pc and run your application successfully! dont worry if u have a dynamic ip at ur home cuz u can use the dynamic redirect function from http://freedns.afraid.org . Best of luck

I know that. I prefer to use XAMPP myself as a testing environment, but the thing is that this application i'm making is going to be self-hosted php application, which means it can't rely on my own server to do this.
That's why the technologies used have to be as common and open as possible.