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Phonegap video streaming Chat application

I have a project where I need to do a PC to mobile chat application in android and iOS, I was thinking if that could be possible using phonegap?
I searched a little and found this plugin for capturing video
https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/VideoCapturePlus-PhoneGap-Plugin
Will it work?
Ok, to add more the backend will be in .net azure server and front end will be the mobile/tablet device and a user should be able to communicate with the admin/supervisor PC web browser.

if you want a livechat, then the plugin will be of no use. I created it for recording video and when recording is done, the result can be played back or sent to a server. Live streaming is not supported.
Best regards,
Eddy

Sending live video stream to wowza streaming engine with Android devices

I want to send live video stream from my android device to wowza streaming engine. I am using sample in this blog but I can not see the result on Test Players page.
Do I need to have a web server serving a page with a video player pointed to this video/app on wowza?

I found this little (but very useful) library with three examples: libstreaming
It works like a charm! Easy to install and develop.

Main point is to look at Wowza logs to understand if stream was successfully published or not.
Then, according to logs you will know what Application, Application instance and Stream name are used for publishing.
So you'll be able to set up any player (VLC for example) with those values and look if stream is viewable or not.

Accepted answer is ok. Libstreaming is working (kinda) but it did not fulfill my expectations so that it can be pushed to some production app. Since this question is quite old, i will share mine up-to-date solution (AS 2.1.2 - Marshmallow) which is using JavaCV. I've built boilerplate for android so it can be used in no time.
Here is url:
How to stream live video from android to Wowza via RTMP

Live stream format in iOS

We have developed video streaming applications for Android and iOS. In this application user can publish video and can view live streams as well. App is working fine from iOS to iOS but can not play on Android. If we publish from Android then it plays on Android, RTMP flash player but not on iOS.
From iOS we are publishing video in H.264 format and Android supports H.264 then why it's not playing on Android?

I can only guess, but It could be a problem with file extension. iOS may expect *.m4v and I'm not sure if the Android can manage it. Also check this topic, it may help you: What h.264 format loads on android AND IOS?

Mandatory to use Darwin or wowza or VLC to stream live video in android?

I want to know is it mandatory to use any of the streaming servers like Darwin,Wowza or VLC to stream an RTSP live stream video? I am receiving an RTSP link from my client and it tends to change everytime. I can successfully play it in the VLC player but on phone I cant see anything. I tried playing a sample link having .3gp extension and it worked fine. But my links dont have an extension. They look like this rtsp://122.166.229.151:1950/1346a0cf0ef7c2. Please help me.If its compulsory to use an extension or a server, I will continue working in that direction.

A streaming server (as you describe) isn't strictly necessary - as long as you can pull RTSP from whatever your source is, you should be able to see it. Most IP cameras have onboard RTSP servers (although I wouldn't put too many connections on it). If you can see it in VLC, the phone should be able to consume it as well, given that the codec used to encode is one supported by the android device (in most cases, if you're doing H.264 Baseline 3.0 with AAC, you should be good to go).
A streaming server like Wowza can make that stream available to a wider audience than pulling directly from the source device, but if you're not intending to broadcast to a wide audience, it's not required for streaming to Android devices.
Newer versions of Android (Gingerbread and later) are also able to consume Apple HTTP Live Streaming.

Video streaming using RTSP: Android

I'm trying to install a Wowza server on my Linux machine to enable the RTSP streaming for my Android application.
On Android client side what sort of changes do I need to make in my application? I'm using Videoview to simply play a video file stored locally.
Now I want to get the video content get streamed through the server that I've installed. If necessary I can move to any other streaming server as right now I'm doing a research on streaming servers.

For rtsp streaming you can also try following servers:
Darwin Streaming Server - linux package is available
Windows Media Services - can be installed on Windows Server Trial
VLC - standalone application
For testing purposes of your application i would also recommend you to use existing mobile video services like:
m.youtube.tv
m.wp.tv
You can extract video links from those sites and use them to test your application.
Try to follow Android ApiDemos, you can find video streaming player example at:
...android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-x\samples\ApiDemos\src\com\example\android\apis\media\MediaPlayerDemo_Video.java

VLC+Android Owns.
I used the following one-liner to stream video of our kittens to our cell phones.
We used the launchRTSP free app to leverage the built-in RTSP viewing capabilities of Android, to access the URL over the internet.
You may want to tweak the frame rate and such. As shown below, it's perfect for webcam streaming.
vlc -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv -I dummy v4l2://:vdev=/dev/video:width=640:height=480:fps=2 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,fps=5,vb=800,acodec=mpga,samplerate=8000,ab=64,deinterlace,channels=1,sfilter='mosaic:marq{marquee=%m-%d-%Y_%H:%M:%S,size=16,color=16711680,position=5,opacity=64}'}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://0.0.0.0:5858/kittens.sdp}"

WCS4 server can deliver WebRTC stream as RTSP.
So you can send WebRTC live stream from Android or desktop Chrome/FF browser and then connnect to this stream via VLC or Android by RTSP.