How to implement webcam streaming in a server

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I'm a cognitive scientist, and I'm planning a Turing-test style experiment in which people will talk to each other over webcam. It's partially face perception, part social psychology.

I'm an experienced REST/HTTP programmer in Ruby and Python, but I have absolutely no idea how to implement a webcam streaming server!

I'm looking for a really basic overview of the techniques I should be using. I can then go and learn more about them myself. I'm happy to use either Ruby or Python.

The server needs to:

• Route any webcam to any other browser, and vice versa (this part is a clone of Chatroulette)
• Store video for later analysis
• Delay some of the video/audio streams by up to a minute (we are looking at time synchronisation)
• Handle very basic text chat as well (I can implement this through a DB but as I'm learning about streaming, why not stream text?)
• Do some basic video manipulations (monochrome etc)

Thanks in advance! Louise

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How to implement webcam streaming in a server