How do I stream an openCV video to an HTML webpage?

Question

I am making a robot that will have a webcam on it to provide some simple object detection. For right now, I would like to simply stream the video to a webpage hosted on the

Answer 1

Under lab conditions you send full images

You seem to be under lab conditions, so there is a simplistic, yet usable solution, just stream PNG's in Base64 using Websockets. On the client side (web browser) you just receive the base64 images and directly load them into the src of an . It works for lab scenarios very well, albeit slow.