Building a Live Streaming WebRTC App for The Robin Hood Army and Dakota Protestors

[Daozen]

I'm learning to program live browser streaming. Video right in your browser, without Skype, Gmail or Facebook live. WebRTC, an open source technology, is one of the options I'm looking at. I wanted to build an open source app for the Robin Hood Army (who feed hundreds of thousands in India) and maybe the Dakota protestors too, if they wanted. Once built, the app would work for any cause or group.

A donation option could be added. I wouldn't take a cut of donations, as there would be legal and technical issues doing so. Donations would go straight to the respective groups, using their own Paypal account, not mine.

It'd be a one-to-many live streaming app. A protestor or Robin Hood student would be in the streets with an Android mobile phone, live broadcasting to ten, twenty, or 1000 viewers at home. The viewers would be able to interact by leaving comments live.

If WebRTC couldn't handle Android, I'd find another way.

A very early Github is here. It contains only API research so far. If you have any ideas on how to build an MVP with the core technology, please leave them here. I'm looking through API documentation now. Hopefully within a few days, I'll have found a prebuilt app to base mine on.

Live streaming apps help people communicate directly. More exciting than watching TV.


https://github.com/Microflow/Robin-Hood-Army-Live/blob/master/WebRTC_and_Youtube_links_and_tutorials.md
https://github.com/Microflow/Robin-Hood-Army-Live

[sandy]

2 Thumps up for you Daozen...:bearhug:

[Daozen]

2 Thumps up for you Daozen...:bearhug:

Thanks. I guess I need to push myself out of my comfort zone, and get this prototype done myself.

[Bubu]

another 2 thumbs up for you :bigsmile: This is the kind of solution that many are looking for and a proof that if there is a will there is a way. Apparently it comes from clarity of thinking or shall I say looking inside. High vibration and the likes should produce high quality action IMO. :bearhug:

[Daozen]

Appreciate your enthusiasm Sandy + Bubu. After a few hours of hard study I've made a filter for a webcam image that improves the color and saturation on users pictures. I also found some examples that I can use for my own project.

After the basic app is built, the possibilities are endless.

[Daozen]

How does your face look in this cam filter? Skin tone, lighting? Are you prettier?

https://codepen.io/Teeke/pen/gwvJwv

Make sure to get the right URL. You can't call anyone on this cam, it's just a test to see if I got the filters right. Later I'll offer the user a choice of subtle color filters.

Does the camera cut out a lot, or is the signal steady?

Probably won't work on mobile or even Safari. I think Chrome is the main supported browser.

Any feedback welcome.

[Daozen]

Making some prototypes now. Will take a while... probably way into the new year, but I met some good collaborators.