send continuous image(not video stream) read from camera

[ardeal]

Hi,

I will read frame from a web camera, and then do some image processing. I then send the processed image to browser in real time.
Here are the steps I take:

step 1: read frame(image) from camera
step 2: process the image
step 3: send the processed image to browser
step 4: repeat step 1

my questions are:

1. I could send each image as xxx.jpg to browser. but image is not encoded, the size of the image might be much big. is this the best solution?

2. If I use FFMPEG or webrtc to encode the image but not continuous images(all images are separate image but not video stream), how to do this? is the encoding effective?

3. do you have good solution for my case? Do you have the example code based on your code to solve my case?