No reason why you couldn't do it, but as far as I know it hasn't been done before. You can send any kind of serializable data into a topology. You'd probably need to emit frames from the spout.
Michael Rose (@Xorlev <https://twitter.com/xorlev>) Senior Platform Engineer, FullContact <http://www.fullcontact.com/> [email protected] On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Suparno Datta <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I just started playing around with storm a few days back. I worked > with some basic examples using the twitter streaming api. I was wondering > If storm can also be used with live video/audio streaming api ( the youtube > streaming api for example). I wanted to develop a app which does something > like detecting and tracking faces from a live video stream using Storm. But > i am not sure if this is even feasible. Most of the examples i see deal > with text streams. Has any one here already tried/ thought of something > like this ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Suparno Datta >
