Capturing video stream on server

[zacharynevin]

Hello,

I have the following use-case I would like to implement:

• A set of users (e.g. 5 users) are conferencing in a room.
• For each user, I want to capture their video stream on the server and do processing (e.g. machine-learning analysis).

I can't find anything in the other rtc modules for allowing this. One idea I had was to set up another server that would be another "client" for the main rtc server, meaning that each room would have an extra client connected that is the video processing server. However, I'm not sure how that would work given that the modules were written for browser-based clients.

Thank you very much!

[silviapfeiffer]

You can either use a media server like Janus that enters such a call and starts being an intermediary, or you can indeed run another peer on the server. It's basically the same as running a headless browser on a server. HTH.