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Flash Webcam Chat
lightIRC includes a webcam module since version 0.9.6. It used a Red5 backend to handle webcam and audio streams.
Since version 1.2, lightIRC makes use of Flash Player 10.1 peer to peer streaming. That means you don't need a streaming server like Red5 anymore. You don't need server bandwidth for webcam streams.
lightIRC peer to peer webcam details
Instead, all the webcam and streaming data is being transferred directly between your users. But, imagine if one user had many subscribers to their webcam, the upstream of the internet connection would be taken to its limit within seconds. For that reason, viewers of streams are re-broadcasting parts of the stream, so that bandwidth consumption is being balanced to many users.
Click here if you are interested in purchasing the webcam extension for your IRC network.
Requirements
• A lightIRC webcam module license
• An RTMFP address for a handshake service (Adobe Cirrus)
As you have read, lightIRC doesn't need a streaming server anymore. But a specific service is necessary for the initial handshake, which connects the clients among one another.
Adobe provides such a service for free. Please go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/ and click "Signup for a Cirrus beta developer key". After that, Adobe gives you an URL which looks similiar to this one:
rtmfp://p2p.rtmfp.net/afd987239898fc98c-203909i8ce/
Just use your personal address and pass it to lightIRC in your config.js file:
params.rtmfp = "rtmfp://p2p.rtmfp.net/afd987239898fc98c-203909i8ce/";
params.webcam = true;
That's it!
You can find more parameters to adjust your webcam module at http://redmine.lightirc.com/projects/lightirc/wiki/Customization_parameters.
