Video Streaming from raspberry zero to an external server

Question

I'm aware of streaming live video using on the RaspberryPi itself as a server. But is there a way to send the video from the raspicam to an external web-streamer so that if I have multiple people viewing a stream it doesn't use up the resources of the pi? What protocol and server should i use? My raspberry is a raspberry pi zero w and i want to stream at the local network via wifi. Thanks.

Answer 1

There is a lot of camera streamer tools/package and I have tested almost all of them then deduced the motion is the better one. It has a simple stream web page and the key advantage is the configuration file.

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Motion installation:

You can install it simply by:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install motion

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Motion configuration:

Check this link - (/etc/motion/motion.conf) out.