nginx-rtmp-module VS hls.js

Regarding the first solution, I've looked through some of the source code for the NGINX RTMP Module, and I believe the code I would need to modify lives in the ngx_rtmp_cmd_module.c file: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/blob/master/ngx_rtmp_cmd_module.c

You could look at setting up the RTMP module on nginx and securing it with lets encrypt - https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

foobar2000 -> OBS -> nginx server running nginx-rtmp-module

If stuck for a server I've used this in the past. nginx with an RTMP module.

Also linking a config file I commented. Unsure if it'll still work and you can definitely simplify it for OP's needs. It was a proof of concept for a streaming service I was thinking up before realising how much money I don't have, haha

https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

https://gist.github.com/cohan/7f676d3f561be62d0550785c015f00...

If you can only output something like RTMP, then your options are a bit more limited. Set up an RTMP server somewhere (e.g. https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module), and connect with another client that will soak up the RTMP into a file - I think ffmpeg should be able to do that, but I've had the most luck with GStreamer. Again, avoid transcoding it on the way into a file, both ffmpeg and GStreamer can be set up to never touch the encoded media (just copy/pass it along).

Are you using the rtmp nginx module?

FROM buildpack-deps:stretch ENV NGINX_VERSION nginx-1.18.0 ENV NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION 1.2.1 RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y ca-certificates openssl libssl-dev && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN mkdir -p /tmp/build/nginx && \ cd /tmp/build/nginx && \ wget -O ${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz https://nginx.org/download/${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz && \ tar -zxf ${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz RUN mkdir -p /tmp/build/nginx-rtmp-module && \ cd /tmp/build/nginx-rtmp-module && \ wget -O nginx-rtmp-module-${NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION}.tar.gz https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/archive/v${NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION}.tar.gz && \ tar -zxf nginx-rtmp-module-${NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION}.tar.gz && \ cd nginx-rtmp-module-${NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION} RUN cd /tmp/build/nginx/${NGINX_VERSION} && \ ./configure \ --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx \ --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \ --pid-path=/var/run/nginx/nginx.pid \ --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx/nginx.lock \ --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \ --http-client-body-temp-path=/tmp/nginx-client-body \ --with-http_ssl_module \ --with-threads \ --with-ipv6 \ --add-module=/tmp/build/nginx-rtmp-module/nginx-rtmp-module-${NGINX_RTMP_MODULE_VERSION} && \ make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \ make install && \ mkdir /var/lock/nginx && \ rm -rf /tmp/build RUN ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/nginx/access.log && \ ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/nginx/error.log COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf EXPOSE 1935 CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

But, if it's something you want to do, and want to do it inexpensively you want to use Nginx-RTMP - http://nginx-rtmp.blogspot.com/ - this is a free version of AntMedia Server without the $70 per month fee.

Good point; there's only a single server handling all the requests so things can be a bit slow depending on the time of day. And there are browser limits to the number of concurrent connections.

Apple browsers with native HLS support are better than those without as well. Other browsers need to load everything via https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/ which slows things down.

Another user using Ubuntu + Firefox just reported this issue recently. You're likely running into this issue - the streaming library we use requires a codec that some browsers have bundled, but Firefox is not one of them. It expects the OS to provide it, and it sounds like yours is not.

I'm trying to build a simple web player for Jellyfin, for another project I'm working on that will embed a clipper. I am using HLS.js to load HLS streams, which seems to work really well for movies, but not at all for shows.

If you mean hls.js https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/, I prefer Shaka because it can play both HLS and DASH, adding tons of stuff on top of it

I don't know the answer to the WebRTC part, but as long as you have a server with not-outrageously-priced outbound bandwidth, you can install an open source RTMP server like SRS[1], and stream to that RTMP server from OBS. It's really easy, configure the RTMP server & stream key, then "Start Streaming" which is right next to "Start Recording". You can then hand your friends a link, and they can play it in any media player with RTMP/HLS/FLV stream support, or you can add a simple web UI with e.g. hls.js[2] (very easy to write, there might even be prepackaged solutions) so that they truly don't need to download anything.

[1] https://github.com/ossrs/srs

[2] https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/

I think HLS.js solved the same issue for H264.

hls.js

https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/ <--download the release.zip, unpack it, extract dist/hls.js and dist/hls.js.map you can discard the rest. Near as I can tell these do not contain any external HTTP calls, IE: it's fully self-contained.