Streaming the IP camera with WebRTC

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. ...

March 29, 2026