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RTSP CDN
NewbieInTraining
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I have a customer that wants a live stream from an IP camera to run live 24/7 on their website. Its dumb, but they insist on it. They are currently using YouTube, but they don't like this option because if the Wi-Fi camera drops offline even for just a few minutes, you have to restart the YouTube live stream manually.
What video CDN service is able to pull the video directly from a public RTSP live video stream link? The stream is publicly viewable using VLC network option. The RTSP link looks like: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_main
I expect to use only a few TB's of data per month. Any suggestions on what providers to check out? Does Cloudflare Stream or Bunny Stream support pulling video from RTSP?
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@PUSHR_Victor
I am aware with ubiquity unifi camera's you can do something like this where it gives you a link that is publicly accessible that is RTSP but they aren't the cheapest. But it would work iirc
You could still stream via YouTube and just have a relay on a server in the middle? Then have the relay swap to a static image when the camera is not available.
Might even be able to do this with just ffmpeg.
Some live stream platform like youtube or twitch have backup rtsp url which if main rtsp didnt send any data, it would be using backup one.
What you need just use
ffmpegon backup rtsp url to send video / image loop on VPS.You could host something like https://github.com/datarhei/restreamer on your own VPS or onsite where the Wifi camera is, then embed the streamlink from Restreamer to your own site, Restreamer automatically restarts the RTSP restream if the source disconnects.
Thanks for the mention!
We are focusing on RTMP nowadays and would not be a good choice for RTSP.
Thanks for suggestions. I'm looking into https://castr.com/pricing/ and https://github.com/datarhei/restreamer and "ffmpeg on backup rtsp url to send video / image loop on VPS".