This is a speculative idea, and actually a bit tangential to Openfire/XMPP. I am interested in doing remote realtime 3D rendering on a server, which is viewed in a web-browser. The key thing would be that the user does NOT need any plugin, i.e. it can be achieved in HTML5 (well we can allow Flash if we have to)
In a stackoverflow discussion the idea that this is somewhat similar to live web-chat came up. I don’t know anything about HTML5 video but does it provide an open way to consume video from any source? Then I thought that since XMPP is the standard for chat, perhaps people on this forum might have some smart ideas about the problem.
Is real-time video-chat something a browser can do in HTML5?
Is Openfire a technology from which I could get any ideas how to do it?
Not quite sure what you mean by “does it provide a stream” but I think the answer is “no”. The render engine simply runs at some speed - let’s say 30fps. Each frame it renders the 3D scene and we can access that as a buffer of RGB pixels, exactly like holding a bitmap in memory.