Streaming the IP camera with WebRTC

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Now that the IP camera is confirmed working over RTSP, the next challenge is getting that stream into a browser without plugins or heavy client software. The solution: convert the RTSP stream to WebRTC and serve it directly from the Pi’s own webpage.

The full pipeline looks like this:

IP Camera (RTSP) → MediaMTX → WebRTC → Browser

WebRTC is natively supported in all modern browsers and brings latency down to under 200ms — a significant improvement over the ~500ms delay observed in VLC.

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Streaming the IP camera with WebRTC

Introduction