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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams parser library is for developers to include in their applications that makes it easy to work with the output of video streams such as retrieving frame-level objects, metadata for fragments, and more.
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Streaming multiple web clients #86

Closed tzahiba closed 4 years ago

tzahiba commented 4 years ago

Hello, I have a question regarding Kinesis video stream.

I would like to stream from my clients browser to Kinesis Video Stream, and later on use it. I dont need the clients to interact with each other, but i am using kinesis as a recorder thus using the infrastructure it is built on. Would this be a best practice to use Kinesis? Thanks.

MushMal commented 4 years ago

@tzahiba the main difficulty is that the browser has a sandboxed media pipeline. If you find a way to get the media then you would be able to stream in. We have a range of native producer SDKs and an ASK in Java which wraps around the native to help to stream using elementary stream. However, if you are able to extract the video in a streamable MKV format, you can use PutMedia backend API directly.

Sorry, I know this is not a lot of information but the problem is that the browser is a confined environment and most browsers don't support "plugins" which would handle it.

ranman commented 4 years ago

What specifically are you trying to record? The browser page itself? Video from a webcam?

You may be able to get a screen recording with a webrtc API and then stream the media in that way: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams-webrtc-dg/latest/devguide/kvswebrtc-sdk-js.html