RTMP Server

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• vsys_host Member, Patron Provider

  March 2023

  @djflakf1

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• farsighter Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  nginx + nginx rtmp module on a Linux VPS can do all that. Configurations are relatively simple if you have basic understanding of HLS m3u format and managing webservers.

  BTW YouTube may also give you a free RTMP URL and host your private (unlisted) live streams, if you meet few conditions.
• BasToTheMax Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  You could take a look at OwnCast.

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• djflakf1 Member

  March 2023

  @farsighter said:
  nginx + nginx rtmp module on a Linux VPS can do all that. Configurations are relatively simple if you have basic understanding of HLS m3u format and managing webservers.

  BTW YouTube may also give you a free RTMP URL and host your private (unlisted) live streams, if you meet few conditions.

  I've had that for a few months, but some of my users comment that the transmission sometimes goes wrong for them. I was thinking maybe of a CDN that makes the transmission more stable. do you have any idea?
• djflakf1 Member

  March 2023

  @BasToTheMax said:
  You could take a look at OwnCast.

  Is good but i need more security
• djflakf1 Member

  March 2023

  @vsys_host said:
  @djflakf1

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  Thanks for u offer but is too expensive for me.
• farsighter Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  @djflakf1 said:

  @farsighter said:
  nginx + nginx rtmp module on a Linux VPS can do all that. Configurations are relatively simple if you have basic understanding of HLS m3u format and managing webservers.

  BTW YouTube may also give you a free RTMP URL and host your private (unlisted) live streams, if you meet few conditions.

  I've had that for a few months, but some of my users comment that the transmission sometimes goes wrong for them. I was thinking maybe of a CDN that makes the transmission more stable. do you have any idea?

  It depends where the problems are resulting from, it could be either the broadcasting end (equipment/connection), your end users' typical connection or the server end (specs/configuration/optimizations).

  At the server end the HLS protocol already addresses such issues by being able to simultaneously serve multiple m3u streams in different bitrates and qualities. This (as well as other directives for HLS) can be configured in nginx so even viewers with worst connections can consume the stream. If your VPS has enough CPU and network speed and is optimally located I don't think you'll need a CDN solution for a such a small audience (of less than 100 people).
• darkimmortal Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  Everything I’ve found in this space is overengineered af… all you need is a VPS running ffmpeg to receive the stream via your choice of protocol (stp rtmp etc) and mux it into HLS and Dash, dash.js, and apache/nginx to serve the files

  You can also use nginx rtmp plugin but that restricts you to rtmp and h264
• farsighter Member

  March 2023

  @darkimmortal said:

  You can also use nginx rtmp plugin but that restricts you to rtmp and h264

  nginx rtmp module can do both HLS and DASH
• djflakf1 Member

  March 2023

  @farsighter said:

  @djflakf1 said:

  @farsighter said:
  nginx + nginx rtmp module on a Linux VPS can do all that. Configurations are relatively simple if you have basic understanding of HLS m3u format and managing webservers.

  BTW YouTube may also give you a free RTMP URL and host your private (unlisted) live streams, if you meet few conditions.

  I've had that for a few months, but some of my users comment that the transmission sometimes goes wrong for them. I was thinking maybe of a CDN that makes the transmission more stable. do you have any idea?

  It depends where the problems are resulting from, it could be either the broadcasting end (equipment/connection), your end users' typical connection or the server end (specs/configuration/optimizations).

  At the server end the HLS protocol already addresses such issues by being able to simultaneously serve multiple m3u streams in different bitrates and qualities. This (as well as other directives for HLS) can be configured in nginx so even viewers with worst connections can consume the stream. If your VPS has enough CPU and network speed and is optimally located I don't think you'll need a CDN solution for a such a small audience (of less than 100 people).

  I greatly appreciate the way you answer, you are very kind. Could I privately send you the rtmp configuration that I have and maybe you could see something that I can optimize? I am not looking for latency reduction but rather to load faster for users.
• farsighter Member

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  @djflakf1 said:
  and maybe you could see something that I can optimize? I am not looking for latency reduction but rather to load faster for users.

  Have you already defined multiple hls_variant in nginx.conf? like this for example:

  hls_variant _480p BANDWIDTH=800000,RESOLUTION=852x480,hls_fragment=4; hls_variant _720p BANDWIDTH=1500000,RESOLUTION=1280x720,hls_fragment=6; hls_variant _1080p BANDWIDTH=3000000,RESOLUTION=1920x1080,hls_fragment=8;

  Like this an HLS stream will automatically adjust based on viewers' network conditions. You can of course offer even worse quality streams.

  there are many examples online.
  If you've already configured multiple stream variants but still having problems I can have a look.