Capture screen and stream to RTMP server

Question

I would like to play around with coding an application that could capture a desktop or section of a screen (height and width variables for resolution) and stream those to an RTMP server (rtmp://server.com/live)

I'd prefer for this fun project to be available on Windows, so I'm thinking C# for its ability to make really nice professional looking GUIs.

Anyway, without all the fancy features like overlays or authentication, I just want to take a section of a screen and send the appropriate information to an open RTMP server like Flash Media Server.

Are these things built-in to C#? How do all of these streaming programs (Flash Media Live Encoder, Xsplit, Procaster, etc work? This is probably my starting point.

Thanks!

Answer 1

ffsplit is somewhat similar to what you're looking for. I'd checkout ffmpeg and https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free as well. I'm unaware of any high quality rtmp implementations in directshow...and that wouldn't be C# anyway :)