[HamWAN PSDR] stream.westin.hamwan.net got an upgrade

[Nick Kartsioukas]

Working in Firefox/Windows (with uBlock and restrictive 3P cookie policies) and Safari/iOS for viewing.  Should there be controls for PTZ camera movement?

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, at 01:36, Bart Kus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our video streaming service got completely redesigned and is now 
> available at the same address as before 
> (http://stream.westin.hamwan.net/). Some notable improvements:
>
> 1) Multi-browser support!  The old design would only run on Chrome. This 
> redesign should be compatible with all modern browsers, including those 
> on mobile devices.  Please let me know what doesn't work, as I'm sure 
> there are some combinations of tech that fail.
>
> 2) Audio support!  Where the cameras have capabilities, audio is being 
> streamed along with the video.  Cameras that don't have microphones 
> stream silent audio.  The mic on ptz.haystack appears to be broken as 
> it's buzzing.
>
> 3) Better reliability!  The new implementation responds to stream / 
> connectivity errors in real-time.  The old implementation would wait an 
> hour or more before doing self-heal and bringing video back online.  The 
> javascript video player is also resilient to brief problems.  It stalls 
> for a bit and then skips forward in time after the problems are gone, 
> all automatically.
>
> And just like the old site, all of this is happening without any 
> transcoding that can degrade quality.  What you see are the raw camera 
> feeds.  The lack of transcoding also means low CPU load, so we can add 
> many more cameras here.
>
> Please give this new system a whirl and let me know if there are any 
> problems or missing features that the old system had which are important 
> still.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Bart
>
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