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Flowplayer HLS.js plugin
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Google Open Spherical Camera API Live Preview #44

Closed rares-lupascu closed 8 years ago

rares-lupascu commented 8 years ago

Hey

Can i use flowplayer-hlsjs to implement Google's OSC Api? i need to make a post request to a local ip address with { name: "camera.getLivePreview" } as parameters i am getting back a stream of jpegs as binary data https://developers.google.com/streetview/open-spherical-camera/reference/camera/getlivepreview

is there a way i can use this library to handle the response?

thanks

phloxic commented 8 years ago

No, I strongly doubt it. From a quick check it doesn't produce a HLS stream. Also Flowplayer - and hls.js for that matter - expect an URL; which can be an ObjectURL or similar: http://demos.flowplayer.org/scripting/filereader.html - but you would still need a video or HLS stream which can be played.

To me this looks like you want to generate a valid HLS stream in the first place - or use an entirely different approach. Integrating it into Flowplayer would be your very last step. Basically you need something which can be played by a video tag (and for the Flash failover to work 'it' would have to be playable by Flash as well).

rares-lupascu commented 8 years ago

thanks @blacktrash i can officially say i am lost :)

phloxic commented 8 years ago

Me too ;-) But basically it's pretty simple: You need a 'real video' for a video tag, web video player etc. That can be VOD (a video file) or a stream (HLS). I have no idea what OSC is capable of, but it sounds like it's generating a sequence of JPEGS. It is possible to transcode an image sequence into a video or stream format, but that is normally the task of a dedicated program like ffmpeg or similar. It's not even just transmuxing because the mjpeg codec cannot be played by any browser.

phloxic commented 8 years ago

Feel free to ask at the hls.js issue tracker, there are very knowledgable people there; in case I overlooked/misunderstood. To me it looks like your first step would be: how do I transform OSC results into a HLS stream.