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Streaming Video From a Canvas With WebRTC and React

What's this blog post about?

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to live stream video from a canvas using WebRTC and React. It explains that anything you can put on a canvas can be sent as video into a WebRTC session, simplifying the process of building real-time applications for sending canvas video. The tutorial covers capturing a canvas using captureStream() API, creating a MediaStream from the canvas, and publishing it to your LiveKit session. It also mentions that this technique was used in their VTuber streaming app.

Company
LiveKit

Date published
May 10, 2023

Author(s)
Neil Dwyer

Word count
478

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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