[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