VideoChat
Go live, with chat, on your own domain.
VideoChat is live video with a chat alongside it, on your own domain. You broadcast from your browser's camera and your audience watches on your site, with a chat panel beside the picture — or you can watch a recorded clip with the same chat, so the room exists whether or not you are live.
The live half uses WebRTC, so the picture goes from your camera to your viewers with no plugin and no external streaming service, and the media server is one you run yourself. The recorded half is the same idea for a clip: a video with the conversation attached. Both halves share one chat, so a room is a room whether the video is live or already published.
Step by step
How to go live, from camera to audience
Both halves are real: a live broadcast with a chat beside it, and a recorded clip with the same panel. Nothing here needs an account with anyone else.
- STEP 01
Open VideoChat and start a room
From your workspace, open VideoChat and create a room. It is a place for a broadcast and its chat, and you can give it a title.
- STEP 02
Go live from your browser
Grant the camera and microphone and press go live. Your browser broadcasts the picture to your own media server — no encoder, no streaming key.
- STEP 03
Share the room
Send the room's address on your own domain. Anyone you give it to can watch in the browser and join the chat.
- STEP 04
Chat while you stream
The chat panel sits beside the video. Messages appear as they are sent, so you can take questions while you broadcast.
- STEP 05
Watch a recording with the same chat
A recorded clip opens in the same room shape, with the same chat panel, so a past broadcast is still a place the conversation can continue.
What it does
Everything a movie needs, without a camera
Go live from your browser
Press go live and your camera broadcasts from the page. There is no encoder to install and no streaming key to copy — the browser is the studio.
A chat beside the picture
The conversation sits next to the video, not under it, so the room reads the way a live stream should: the picture and the people together.
Live and recorded, one app
The same chat panel serves a live broadcast and a recorded clip, so you do not run two products to have a live room and a library of past ones.
WebRTC, so there is no plugin
The stream uses the browser's own real-time video, which means nothing to install for you or your viewers.
Your own media server
The live media runs on a server you control, so your stream is not routed through someone else's platform.
On your own domain
The stream and the chat are served from your domain, so your audience stays with you rather than being handed to a third party.
Questions
Questions people ask
Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.
What is VideoChat?
Do I need special software to stream?
Does the live feature need anything extra on my server?
Is the chat stored with the video?
Where does my stream go?
VideoChat is ready on your install
It is part of Social Jinni and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.