# Streaming from webcam

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531 "2017-08-24T13:38:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Maslov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sergey\_Maslov](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sergey_Maslov)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531/1 "2017-08-24T13:38:21Z")

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Hi!

In the our project we need to stream live video from webcams via browser.

We’re planning to use third-party services so wowza looks pretty good for us. However, I was slightly confused by wowza documentation and I don’t understand about efforts we need to integrate with wowza.

Basically, I have several questions:

1. Is it possible? I haven’t found this API in the documentation. Do the user need to have Adobe Flash?

2. What kind of wowza services do we need? According to the cloud services documentation, there is no webcam support in the "Wowza Streaming Cloud accepts"list.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531/2 "2017-08-24T21:08:40Z")

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If you need to deliver content from webcams through a browser then you should look at our WebRTC preview.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine)

If you plan to perform high definition live streaming then you will need to have a live encoder connect to your cameras so that you can stream your live video to Wowza Streaming Engine. We have an article on how to configure an RTMP based encoder to connect to Wowza Streaming Engine.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtmp-based-encoder)

With regards to using Adobe Flash to decode content many but not all browsers support Media Source Extensions. If a given browser on a given OS does not support MSE then your player should fall back to using Adobe Flash to decode the content. More on Media Source Extensions can be found in the article below.

[https://www.wowza.com/blog/the-current-state-of-media-source-extensions](https://www.wowza.com/blog/the-current-state-of-media-source-extensions)

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**Author:** ![Leonardo\_Rodriguez1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@Leonardo\_Rodriguez1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Leonardo_Rodriguez1)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531/3 "2019-03-29T20:23:24Z")

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Excuse me I do not understand, could you give me an example where you place the rtmp url in webrtc

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**Author:** ![Emre\_Karatasoglu\_Adv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Emre\_Karatasoglu\_Adv](https://community.wowza.com/u/Emre_Karatasoglu_Adv)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531/4 "2019-03-29T23:21:06Z")

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@Leonardo Rodriguez ,

two way publishing stream from your browser.

1-) Adobe Flash Player =\> Rtmp publish

Classic flash wowza chat sample can be used

2-) Without any plugin ( only webrtc supported browser such as chrome mozilla opera ) =\> Webrtc publish  
you need this configuration described @ [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine#originedge#try-the-webrtc-html-examples](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine#originedge#try-the-webrtc-html-examples)

also here is a sample page provided by wowza for publishing stream

[https://www.wowza.com/downloads/webrtc/webrtcexamplepages.zip](https://www.wowza.com/downloads/webrtc/webrtcexamplepages.zip)

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**Author:** ![Jithin\_Wilfred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@Jithin\_Wilfred](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jithin_Wilfred)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-from-webcam/49531/5 "2019-08-16T15:42:54Z")

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Is there any possible method to publish stream on **Wowza streaming cloud** with a web cam and web browser.