Rtsp streaming node

Question

I need to display a live camera on a webpage, and this camera uses rstp protocol. I've just found out that browsers do not support rtsp protocol, so I need to create a nodeJS server to serve to the client(react) in order to make it work. I came across multiple information articles on the internet but nothing seems to work properly. How can I accomplish this mission?

Answer 1

I too was researching on the same thing. What I found out was that we can convert our RTSP URL to HLS using FFMPEG and pass the HLS master file (.m3u8) to video tag in HTML to stream.

Let me know if it helps.

Example:

<video id="video-player" controls preload="none"><source src="/output-directory/index.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL"></video>