How to stream live video frames from client to flask server and back to the client?

So, what I was trying to do is to take the real time video stream captured by the client's webcam and process them at backend.

My backend code is written in Python and I am using SocketIo to send the frames from frontend to backend. You can have a look at this design to get a better idea about what's happening - image

  1. My server(app.py) will be running in backend and client will be accessing index.html
  2. SocketIo connection will get establish and video stream captured using webcam will be send to server frames by frames.
  3. These frames will be then processed at the backend and emit back to the client.
  4. Processed frames coming form the server can be shown in img tag.

Here is the working code -

app.py

@socketio.on('image')
def image(data_image):
    sbuf = StringIO()
    sbuf.write(data_image)

    # decode and convert into image
    b = io.BytesIO(base64.b64decode(data_image))
    pimg = Image.open(b)

    ## converting RGB to BGR, as opencv standards
    frame = cv2.cvtColor(np.array(pimg), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)

    # Process the image frame
    frame = imutils.resize(frame, width=700)
    frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
    imgencode = cv2.imencode('.jpg', frame)[1]

    # base64 encode
    stringData = base64.b64encode(imgencode).decode('utf-8')
    b64_src = 'data:image/jpg;base64,'
    stringData = b64_src + stringData

    # emit the frame back
    emit('response_back', stringData)

index.html

<div id="container">
    <canvas id="canvasOutput"></canvas>
    <video autoplay="true" id="videoElement"></video>
</div>

<div class = 'video'>
    <img id="image">
</div>

<script>
    var socket = io('http://localhost:5000');

    socket.on('connect', function(){
        console.log("Connected...!", socket.connected)
    });

    const video = document.querySelector("#videoElement");

    video.width = 500; 
    video.height = 375; ;

    if (navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia) {
        navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true })
        .then(function (stream) {
            video.srcObject = stream;
            video.play();
        })
        .catch(function (err0r) {
            console.log(err0r)
            console.log("Something went wrong!");
        });
    }

    let src = new cv.Mat(video.height, video.width, cv.CV_8UC4);
    let dst = new cv.Mat(video.height, video.width, cv.CV_8UC1);
    let cap = new cv.VideoCapture(video);

    const FPS = 22;

    setInterval(() => {
        cap.read(src);

        var type = "image/png"
        var data = document.getElementById("canvasOutput").toDataURL(type);
        data = data.replace('data:' + type + ';base64,', ''); //split off junk 
        at the beginning

        socket.emit('image', data);
    }, 10000/FPS);


    socket.on('response_back', function(image){
        const image_id = document.getElementById('image');
        image_id.src = image;
    });

</script>

Also, websockets runs on secure origin.