Viewing a Live Multicast Rtp Stream with Html5

I’ve searched and read all the posts I can find, but I don’t think I get it. We have an extron SMP that provides us with a multicast live RTP stream. This stream can be viewed from any computer on our network using VLC Player. Now we want to play this stream in our browser.

I know that you cannot natively play the stream and must convert it real time to an HTML compatible version. This is where I am having issues.

I have attempted to use the program ‘udpxy’ which converted the multicast stream to an H264 HTTP Stream, but I could never find an HTML player that would play the stream. It worked in VLC, But the ‘video’ tag, videoJS, not jwplayer would work.

I also attempted to use nginx and the nginx rtmp module and failed miserably. Could never get nginx to serve a stream.

Could some elaborate on the method that I need to use to convert the multicast RTP stream to an HTML5 compliant stream.

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James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

Environmental Science & Climate Journalist

James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.

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