libdatachannel/examples/streamer/README.md

Streaming H264 and opus

This example streams H264 and opus¹ samples to the connected browser client.

Start the example signaling server

$ python3 examples/signaling-server-python/signaling-server.py

Start a web server

$ cd examples/streamer
$ python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8080

Start the streamer

$ cd build/examples/streamer
$ ./streamer

Arguments:

• -a Directory with OPUS samples (default: ../../../../examples/streamer/samples/opus/).
• -b Directory with H264 samples (default: ../../../../examples/streamer/samples/h264/).
• -d Signaling server IP address (default: 127.0.0.1).
• -p Signaling server port (default: 8000).
• -v Enable debug logs.
• -h Print this help and exit.

You can now open the example at the web server URL http://127.0.0.1:8080.

Generating H264 and Opus samples

You can generate H264 and Opus sample with samples/generate_h264.py and samples/generate_opus.py respectively. This require ffmpeg, python3 and kaitaistruct library to be installed. Use -h/--help to learn more about arguments.

1 Opus samples are generated from music downloaded at bensound. ↩