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This document introduces you to our web-based interactive live streaming solutions TUIPusher and TUIPlayer (UI included). You can integrate them into Tencent Cloud’s basic SDKs such as IM and TRTC to quickly equip your live streaming applications (corporate live streaming, live shopping, vocational training, remote teaching, etc.) with web-based publishing and playback capabilities.

Strengths:

• A general-purpose live streaming solution with UI that includes common live streaming features such as device selection, beauty filters, publishing, playback, and live chat, helping you quickly bring your services to the market
• Easy integration into Tencent Cloud’s basic SDKs, including TRTC, IM, and TCPlayer, for excellent flexibility and scalability
• Web-based, easy-to-use, and quick updates

Demos

See below for a demonstration of the components’ features. We also provide a TUIPusher Demo and a TUIPlayer Demo, with user and room management systems, for you to experiment with the features.

Note：

You need to log in with two different accounts to try TUIPusher and TUIPlayer at the same time.

Download

You can download TUIPusher and TUIPlayer from the following links:

• TUIPusher
• TUIPlayer

Overview

TUIPusher

• Capturing and publishing streams from camera and mic
  • Customizing video parameters including frame rate, resolution, and bitrate
  • Applying beauty filters and setting beauty filter parameters
• Capturing and publishing data from the screen
• Publishing to the TRTC backend and Tencent Cloud’s CDNs
• Text chatting with the anchor and other audience members
• Getting the audience list and muting audience members

TUIPlayer

• Playing the audio/video stream and screen sharing stream at the same time
• Text chatting with the anchor and other audience members
• Three playback options: ultra-low-latency live streaming (300 ms latency), high-speed live streaming (latency within 1,000 ms), and standard live streaming (ultra-high concurrency)
• Supports desktop and mobile browsers and landscape mode on mobile devices

  Note：

  
  If your browser does not support WebRTC and can play videos only using standard live streaming protocols, please use a different browser to try WebRTC playback.

Integration

Notes

• TUIPusher and TUIPlayer are based on TRTC and IM. Make sure you use the same SDKAppID for your TRTC and IM applications so that they can share your account and authentication information.
• Local UserSig calculation is for development and local debugging only and not for official launch. The correct UserSig distribution method is to integrate the calculation code of UserSig into your server and provide an application-oriented API. When UserSig is needed, your application can send a request to the business server for a dynamic UserSig. For more information, see Generating UserSig.

Step 1. Create an application

Step 2. Prepare your project

1. Download the code for TUIPusher and TUIPlayer at GitHub.

2. Install dependencies for TUIPusher and TUIPlayer.

   cd Web/TUIPusher
   npm install
   cd Web/TUIPlayer
   npm install
   

3. Paste SDKAppID and the secret key to the specified locations below in the TUIPusher/src/config/basic-info-config.js and TUIPlayer/src/config/basic-info-config.js files.
   

4. Run TUIPusher and TUIPlayer in a local development environment.

   cd Web/TUIPusher
   npm run serve
   cd Web/TUIPlayer
   npm run serve
   

5. You can open http://localhost:8080 and http://localhost:8081 to try out the features of TUIPusher and TUIPlayer.

6. You can modify the room, anchor, and audience information in TUIPusher/src/config/basic-info-config.js and TUIPlayer/src/config/basic-info-config.js, but make sure the room and anchor information is consistent in the two files.

Note：

• You can now use TUIPusher and TUIPlayer for ultra-low-latency live streaming. If you want to support high-speed and standard live streaming too, see Step 3. Enable relayed push.
• Local calculation of UserSig is for development and local debugging only and not for official launch. If your SECRETKEY is leaked, attackers will be able to steal your Tencent Cloud traffic.
• The correct UserSig distribution method is to integrate the calculation code of UserSig into your server and provide an application-oriented API. When UserSig is needed, your application can send a request to the business server for a dynamic UserSig. For more information, see How do I calculate UserSig on the server?.

Step 3. Enable relayed push

Because the high-speed and standard live streaming features of TUIPusher and TUIPlayer are powered by CSS, you need to enable relayed push to use these features.

1. In the TRTC console, enable relayed push for your application. You can choose Specified stream for relayed push or Global auto-relayed push based on your needs.
   
2. On the Domain Management page, add your playback domain name. For detailed directions, please see Adding Your Own Domain Names.
3. Configure the playback domain name in TUIPlayer/src/config/basic-info-config.js.

You can now use all features of TUIPusher and TUIPlayer, including ultra-low-latency live streaming, high-speed live streaming, and standard live streaming.

Step 4. Apply in a production environment

To apply TUIPusher and TUIPlayer to a production environment, in addition to integrating them into your project, you also need to do the following:

• Create a user management system to manage user information such as user IDs, usernames, and profile pictures
• Create a room management system to manage room information such as room IDs, room names, and anchors
• Generate UserSig on your server

  Note：

  • In this document, UserSig is generated on the client based on the SDKAppID and secret key you provide. The secret key may be easily decompiled and reversed, and if your key is leaked, attackers will be able to steal your traffic. Therefore, this method is for local debugging only.
  • The correct UserSig distribution method is to integrate the calculation code of UserSig into your server and provide an application-oriented API. When UserSig is needed, your application can send a request to the business server for a dynamic UserSig. For more information, see How do I calculate UserSig on the server?.

• Submit account information such as user information, room information, SDKAppID, and UserSig to store of vuex for global storage, as in TUIPusher/src/pusher.vue and TUIPlayer/src/player.vue, and you will be able to use all features of the two components on publishing and playback clients. The diagram below shows the process in detail:
  

FAQs

How do I implement the beauty filter feature on the web?

See Enabling Beauty Filters.

How do I implement the screen sharing feature on the web?

See Screen Sharing.

How do I implement the on-cloud recording feature on the web?

1. For information about how to enable on-cloud recording, see On-Cloud Recording and Playback.
2. If you enable specified user recording, you can start recording on the web by specifying userDefineRecordId when calling the TRTC.createClient API.

How do I enable high-speed playback on the web?

Publish streams to CDNs using the TRTC Web SDK and play the streams using WebRTC.

Notes

Supported platforms

Domain requirements

For security and privacy reasons, only HTTPS URLs can access all features of TUIPusher and TUIPlayer. Therefore, please use the HTTPS protocol for the web page of your application in production environments.

Note：

Note: You can use http://localhost for local development.

The table below lists the supported domain names and protocols.

Firewall configuration

TUIPusher and TUIPlayer rely on the following ports and domain for data transfer, which should be added to the allowlist of your firewall.

• TCP port: 8687
• UDP ports: 8000, 8080, 8800, 843, 443, 16285
• Domain name: qcloud.rtc.qq.com

Summary

In future versions, we plan to add support for communication between the web components and the TRTC SDKs for iOS, Android, etc. and introduce features such as co-anchoring, advanced filters, custom layout, relaying to multiple platforms, and image/text/music upload.

If you have any requirements or feedback, contact colleenyu@tencent.com.