import data from web stream in c++

Question

hi

i was wondering if is possible to import data from a live stream from a web site and perform computation on the data in real time? if this is possible what is the most efficient(computationally fast) way of doing it? thank you for any help or commpents.

Answer 1

The VLC from VideoLan.org is a free open source player that can render almost any codec and can handle almost any kind of stream. That's probably your best starting point, and depending on what you're doing your objective may be better served by writing a plugin for that application. Its a pretty open ended question though.

Answer 2

you can use cURL. A curl handle can have a function called each time new data comes in.

Answer 3

What type of data are you talking about streaming? Perhaps socket programming is what you need.