live h.264 streaming from wifi camera directly to iPhone

[mpopovi]

Hello All and thanks in advance for your help.


I am tring to do somethign that seems to be very simple, but turns out it isn't. I have a standard WiFi h.264 camera that I use as a baby monitor which, in technical terms, means I need it to be as realtime as possible. My initial goal was to encode the stream from the camera as such that the native iPhone hardware decoder can be used so that the result is a direct, clean, sharp, and realtime video from my camera onto my iPhone.


I am finidng that the iPhone will not take anything from the camera's stream unless I use HLS as a middleman server. I am desperatly trying to avoid introducing a server inbetween the camera and the iphone, since it means more work, more bandwidth, and more latency on the video.


So my question is: What do I need to do in order to get a direct h.264 stream from my WiFi camera to show up on my iPhone using its hardware decoding?


Again, your help means a lot since I have been beating myself up on this for over 6 months now.


Thanks,

Marko