Live Streaming Video Chat App without voice using cv2 module of Python

What is OpenCV?

OpenCV is a Python open-source library, which is used for computer vision in Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, face recognition, etc.

In OpenCV, the CV is an abbreviation form of a computer vision, which is defined as a field of study that helps computers to understand the content of the digital images such as photographs and videos.

The purpose of computer vision is to understand the content of the images. It extracts the description from the pictures, which may be an object, a text description, and three-dimension model, and so on.

Steps required to build Live Streaming Video Chat App:-

Prerequisite:-

1. Webcam
2. Any IDE having python extension installed.
3. Internet Connection

Here I am using Jupyter Notebook.

Required Python Libraries:-

socket, imutils, pickle, struct, cv2

Here I am using socket programming for live streaming.

Socket programming is a way of connecting two nodes on a network to communicate with each other. One socket(node) listens on a particular port at an IP, while other socket reaches out to the other to form a connection. Server forms the listener socket while client reaches out to the server.

So let’s make a Live video chat app:-

We need to create a two python file, one serves as a client and other works as server.

First file named as server.py. Below is the code of this file.

Now second file named as client.py. Below is the code of this file.

Run server.py file and you get your host ip of your system. Enter your host ip in client.py file in socket creation section.

Now run client.py file and see your webcam light opens and two video frame open one is from server side and another is client side.

Here is the output-:

Our Live Stream Video chat app run successfully…. 😊

Thanks for Reading ❤