'A fluke': The oldest webcam is still watching over San Francisco

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  • Icecast

    Icecast streaming media server (Mirror) - Please report bugs at https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues

  • If you want a very low FPS stream you can do what @TODO mentioned and just take stills from the camera and serve them in an HTML page and refresh as often as you like. Let the user refresh the page, or use javascript to do it automatically.

    If you want more of a "proper" video stream (whatever that means) one good choice is to use Icecast[1][2]. It makes it pretty easy to set up audio and video streams and publish them.

    [1]: https://icecast.org/

    [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icecast

  • rtsp-simple-server

    Discontinued Also known as rtsp-simple-server. ready-to-use RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / WebRTC server and proxy that allows to read, publish and proxy video and audio streams. [Moved to: https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx]

  • I've used an rtsp sever [1] along with hls.js [2] so that I can have it in a nicer webpage and then stuck it all behind a vpn (wireguard).

    [1]: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server

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  • hls.js

    HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.

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