I've written a network "audio server" that streams audio data in real-time from a software-defined radio receiver. Currently, the server acts as an RTSP server (as per RFC2326) and the data is streamed over RTP (as per RFC3550) when a client requests it via RTSP.
Currently, this requires a native application to act as the RTP receiver (e.g. VLC, gstreamer, etc.). I'd like to be able to stream audio data to clients without requiring them to install a separate piece of software -- i.e. just load a webpage and the audio plays (maybe with a basic control UI displayed as well).
I've been out of the web development game for a while, but recently I've seen a lot of chatter about the new "streaming" <audio> tag in HTML5. However, although it's called "streaming," it still seems to be file-oriented -- i.e. you have to have all the data on-hand a-priori. So my question is:
Is there a way to play "live" audio data (which is being generated in real-time) on a webpage using standard technologies/javascript libraries? Ideally, it would work on both desktop and "mobile" platforms.
It doesn't have to use the RTP transport under the hood -- I can rewrite or add new transports to the server if needed. The goal is to avoid having any "special" native software on the client -- just load the webpage and the audio plays.
