Self-host your own streaming server without relying on any external and expensive services (like Amazon IVS).
See a working demo here - https://nginx-rtmp.athlon1600.com/
All you need is Docker.
On Linux, you can install it with just this one-liner:
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | shWhether you are playing with this on your local computer, or hosting it on a real server, the steps are basically the same. Things do change a lot once you actually get thousands of users though.
Start by cloning this repository, and then start the services using Docker:
git clone https://github.com/Athlon1600/nginx-rtmp-server.git
cd nginx-rtmp-server
docker-compose up --build -dand that is it!
Assuming you are doing this from your local computer, that should launch two services:
- HTTP Nginx Server on port 8090: http://localhost:8090
- RTMP Ingest Server on port 1935:
rtmp://localhost:1935
Once the two services are up and running, you can now start streaming to your newly launched RTMP server at this endpoint:
rtmp://localhost:1935/live/{stream_key}{stream_key} can be anything you want. In all the examples below we will be using test.
If you are using OBS, point your streaming settings to:
rtmp://localhost:1935/live/test
You can also stream any mp4-like video file using ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -nostdin -re -i "./video.mp4" -copy -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/testEvery stream will produce .m3u8 playlist, that is then made accessible via HTTP protocol,
and can then be consumed by any client that supports HLS protocol
such as VLC media player, or your web-browser.
That playlist URL will look something like:
http://localhost:8090/hls/test/master.m3u8
Where test is a "stream key" for that particular stream.
To play it using VLC Media player:
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Or you can play it in your web-browser with any HLS supporting video player such as:
If you want HTTPS support out of the box, you should install and use Caddy web server:
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Athlon1600/useful/master/caddy/caddy_linux_amd64.sh | bashNext step is to update etc/Caddyfile configuration file, and then run:
caddy start --config ./etc/Caddyfile