Home Media Streamer

[cretz]

• (Windows?) Software captures video on any headless chrome tab, probably via chrome-specific webrtc tab-capture if possible, otherwise in a fraps-ish way maybe via hidden docker container
• Software runs resident on PC in background
• Software also has scrape rules to re-present Netflix, Amazon, Spectrum, DirecTV, etc movie libs into one
• The key is there is no server, this is just people using their own services and their own creds and their own scraping
• Have clients in webpage as webrtc video clients
• Maybe have a nice packaged way for users via DynDNS or a DHT to put names to their home server for signalling
• Maybe have ability to proxy home video via a server...actually, even better, auto-setup a TOR hidden service
• Need to read about other experiences in this realm...not very familiar w/ plex/kodi/popcorn/etc

[cretz]

Also see: https://www.playon.tv

[cretz]

Well, CEF has a render handler that gets raw pixel values and we could use libavcodec to output in any way we want.

[cretz]

Did a bit of PoC work on recording video and audio at https://github.com/cretz/chrome-screen-rec-poc

[cretz]

This is becoming more of a reality with https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/pull-requests/158/support-external-textures-in-osr-mode and https://github.com/daktronics/cef-mixer. Would still have to do audio, maybe with https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/pull-requests/151/add-ability-to-redirect-audio-output-to even though it's declined.