Hello - our company is considering using Wowza for the serverside
capture of webcam video - currently generated by a Flash client, very
much like the “webcamrecording” demo included with the download. We’re
pretty happy with what we’re seeing so far, but have a question about
the output video data that is critical to our use case. Any
documentation or postings relating to it would really help us make our
decision.
Specifically - we need to be able to match up timepoints in the video
to various events we’re generating on the client side. We will have
timestamps for when these events occur, and in an ideal world, we’d be
able to just match them up to internal timestamps in the output video
file. So, we have some hopefully simple questions - when we output a
video file on the Wowza server, generated from a Flash client stream,
are there timestamps already available or easily recovered? Will the
framerate vary with bandwidth or server/client performance? Are there
any easy solutions or difficult problems with this we should be aware
of? Is there a difference (regarding timestamps in particular) between
output formats (FLV vs. MP4, etc)?
Thanks in advance,
-scot