How do I create a variable video delay of a live stream...

Report · Nov 25, 2013

I have a live video feed from my webcam in my Flash Application. I have a second video window next to it that I want to place a variable delayed video of the live stream. Therefore, I need to save the video stream in memory/disk and create this variable delay, say 5-60 seconds. As well as, continue to capture the live stream. The camera I am using suppots H.264 encoding.

How do I create a variable length queue or buffer to hold the video stream coming into the flash application. Do I create a memory variable or write this to disk ? I have been looking over the ActionScript 3.0 documentation and I can not figure out how to code this either way ( as a memory variable or write to disk queue ).

I want to be able to change the delay, view the delay stream in slow motion and scrub through the delayed stream.

I would like to do this with out having to use Flash Media Server.

Thanks,

Bob

Report · Mar 28, 2014

Hi Bob,

I have need for a very similar scenario to yours above. Did you manage to find a solution to delay the webcam feed, before it appears on-screen?

Regards

Simon

Report · Apr 10, 2014

Does anyone have any advice on this?

Report · Apr 10, 2014

I am sure it is practically impossible to accomplish that on the client side. Although theoretically it is conceivable to use NetStream.appendBytes() but it requires an extremely complex implementation.

I suggest you look into FMS DVR capacities:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WS236AE81A-5319-4327-9E44-310A93CA09C6Dev.html