Assistance Needed for Cross-Browser Video Streaming from Webcam

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Hi team,

I recently attempted to stream video from my webcam to a web browser. I successfully achieved video streaming in Mozilla Firefox, but unfortunately, I encountered issues while trying to stream the video in Chrome and other web browsers. I have included the pipeline below for your reference.

Pipeline

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720 ! clockoverlay shaded-background=true font-desc=“Sans 38” ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! tcpserversink host=192.168.53.207 port=8080

Mozilla Firefox - working fine

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Chrome

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Could you please review it and provide a solution to ensure compatibility with various web browsers?

Regards,
Sulthan

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It’s quite uncommon for browsers to support raw TCP streaming, and in OGG. For low latency, I’d suggest using webrtcsink, if latency is less important, hlssink or dashsink seems more scalable.

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Or alternatively, streaming WebM via plain HTTP would also work but has higher latency than webrtcsink and is less scalable than HLS/DASH. But simpler.

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