chunky webcam
send .webm recordings from a webcam stream, in chunks of user-specified time, to a socket.io server
installation
npm install chunky-webcam
usage
var chunky = require('../index.js')
, getUserMedia = require('get-user-media')
// get user webcam
getUserMedia({ video: true, audio: false}, (err, stream) => {
// setup chunky-webcam, with our stream
// it will record 1000ms chunks,
// and send them with a 'video' event to 'localhost:9999'
// where our server runs
chunk = chunky(stream, 1000, 'localhost:9999')
console.log('chunky-webcam', chunk)
// let's say our server will send 'data' events
chunk.socket.on('data', data => {
// we will add them to our msg element
console.log('heard from server!', data)
})
})
see examples/
for a robust client/server example.
api
var chunk = chunky(webcam_stream, chunk_duration_ms, uri)
start sending .webm files of length chunk_duration_ms
to a socket.io server uri
takes a webcam media stream.
the client will emit 'video'
events over the socket.io connection, each containing binary blobs of the video
chunk.socket
the underlying socket.io connection.
use this to, for example, subscribe to events coming from your socket.io server. or to emit other kinds of events to this server.
license
BSD