[bcryptd]

The one thing I've always wanted from nginx-rtmp was the ability to pull from a source input instead of running a separate process with ffmpeg to push the stream over. If they could get that working my life would become less complicated quickly.

[jc4p]

yeah I use nginx-rtmp for local video capturing (basically the functionality of a mirror) and the lag that needing to re-encode + chunk + starting off at the beginning of the chunks in the playlist introduces is meh. I think I'm going to transition my project over to WebRTC though, since the mobile device I'm using to display the video can handle that now.

[rawnlq]

iOS still doesn't support webrtc...

[jc4p]

Neither does a lot of Android! Luckily the product I'm using uses https://crosswalk-project.org/ -- that sounded like an ad!

[nickysielicki]

> [I'd prefer] the ability to pull from a source input instead of running a separate process with ffmpeg to push the stream over.

Could you elaborate on this? I don't understand what you mean by 'push' and 'pull' in this context.

[bcryptd]

Currently to get the stream from ffmpeg into nginx you have to do the following: ffmpeg -re -i input_file -c copy -f flv rtmp://nginx_server_url:1935/app

It would be nice to have the ability to set up an app block that looked kind of like this

application source1 { exec fffmpeg -f decklink -i 'DeckLink Quad (1)@8' -f flv rtmp://localhost/app/$name }

ffmpeg is still pushing the stream to nginx, but nginx is in charge of starting that process.

[benwilber0]

I think you might be looking for the exec_pull (or exex_static) directive

https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/wiki/Directives#ex...

[bcryptd]

I've tried, and it doesn't work so well. I don't think it works for every OS either.

[rhizome]

Is there an advantage that an nginx process like that has over streaming servers like liquidsoap?

[bcryptd]

liquidsoap is audio only right?

Most streaming servers are bloated and slow. If nginx can do for video streaming what they've done for web servers it would be great.

[vertex-four]

Nope, liquidsoap does video. http://liquidsoap.fm/doc-svn/video.html