mediamtx VS streamlink

I started a discussion on the MediaMTX Github repo, where you can find more information on my problem: https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/discussions/2787

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

So you want the server to make an HTTP call to an endpoint to deliver when streams change their status?

https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1462

Looks like there might be a work around.

How low delay do you need? I'd recommend MediaMTX + VLC if you just want a live feed. motionEye could work too but it's very demanding on both the server and clients.

Have MediaMTX configured with a path for publishing:

so here's my next problem, to run ffmpeg from inline in mediamtx you have to build a new docker image that combines them. Aler9 gave instructions for the Dockerfile here: https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx/discussions/278

The one Docteh brought up is a good one https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx, I just set it up and all I had to do was change one line in the yml config file in the rtsp section to get that to work.

It doesn't look like Streamlink is immune to the challenges of Twitch ads: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/4949

i can't quite tell what you're asking for but check out https://streamlink.github.io/

Take a look at this: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/

Streamlink != Steam Link

alternatively, you can use streamlink to stream the video and let it open vlc for you.

A summary of my use case: I like to watch Twitch streams via streamlink. For that purpose I use wtwitch, a terminal program which allows me to maintain a list of my favourite channels without a Twitch account, check which of those streamers are currently online and run a command to open their streams via streamlink.

Streamlink has very detailed and newbie friendly documentation. Here's the plugin you'd need to scrape Kick links.

I believe yt-dlp works and merges everything already for you. I use streamlink https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink for most of twitch stuff and all you have to do is pass in the vod url

Next you will need streamlink, again in the same powershell instance type.