[krotik]

No, SHOUTcast is only about audio. It is quite simple and straight forward.

I did implement some time ago a basic video streaming server (in Java) using Adobe's Real Time Messaging Protocol (only a partial implementation). It worked well enough for jwplayer and flowplayer. However, Flash is now on the decline and also it was a real pain to implement it.

I would be interested in implementing a video streaming server in Go. Does anyone know a good streaming protocol for HTML5 video? It should support seeking though - this was one of the main points why I went through the RTMP implementation.

[speps]

I asked because of this from their FAQ[0]:

What is Icecast, the program?

Icecast is a streaming server, which can stream audio (and video) to listeners/viewers. It supports Ogg (Vorbis, Theora), Opus, FLAC and WebM (VP8/VP9), nonfree codecs/formats like MP4 (H.264, MPEG4), M4A, NSV, AAC and MP3 might work, but we do not officially support those.

EDIT: is your Java code for video streaming somewhere? I'm interested in streaming my Raspberry Pi camera as all existing solutions don't satisfy me at the moment.

[0] http://icecast.org/faq/

[Thaxll]

Icecast is not SHOUTcast...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHOUTcast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icecast

[krotik]

I am currently travelling but once I have a stable connection I can upload it.

If you just want streaming (unidirectional) then you could just write a simple server which streams the byte stream from the camera. I remember one of my colleagues at work did this for our foos table scoring system. I suspect this is also what Icecast does.

I went through the pain of RTMP because I wanted support for seeking which requires bidirectional communication.

[krotik]

Hi, I managed now to dig out my Java code. It is here:

http://devt.de/tmp/rtmp_example.zip

It is just an experiment so not much documentation and/or unit tests. I hope it helps.

[toast0]

You could certainly send video with shoutcast framing, but you would need a client that knew how to handle that. It wouldn't be seekable, but that would be expected for live video. Adapting to available bandwidth is mostly expected for video, but not as much for audio.

[mumphster]

Shoutcast definitely supported video streaming using the nsv format. I used to run a server back in the day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft_Streaming_Video

[krotik]

Thanks, I stand corrected. So I guess I have to try to stream a video :-)

Though sadly, I understand that this will not allow seeking.