Http Media Streaming Server - html

Question

I have developed video streaming application with RED5 media server(RTMP). Instead of RTMP need to stream live video through HTTP.
Any open source HTTP media server??
Is any open source server which supports both RTMP and HTTP ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Primarily, HTTP and RTMP are different protocols. You won't serve RTMP inside the HTTP. (Although you can do this for a tunneling solution).
Exist several ways to do HTTP Streaming. Such as HLS, DASH, Smooth and Progresive Download. If you need serve streaming to iOS (iPad, iPhone, Apple TV) you will need to use HLS.
As well as arcyqwerty said. Any HTTP server is able to serve HTTP Streaming. But you will need to prepare your media files and the manifest files before serving.
Here are some links very important for read about HLS (HTTP Live Streaming):
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/networkinginternet/conceptual/streamingmediaguide/Introduction/Introduction.html
https://developer.apple.com/streaming/
http://features.encoding.com/http-live-streaming-hls/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-12
What about open source servers. I know these:
Flumotion: http://www.flumotion.net/
Gstreamer Server Streaming: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-streaming-server/
Nginx HLS Module: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_hls_module.html (Only Nginx Plus)
Or you can do like me and use GStreamer for segmenting and make manifest. And finaly I use the Nginx only to serve them.
I hope I helped you a little bit.

Answer 2

Any HTTP server that can serve files (apache, nginx, IIS, etc) can "stream" media over HTTP.
So if you want, you can keep RED5 for RTMP and set up an HTTP server to serve the same files.
You may want to look into Media streaming basics - HTTP vs RTMP for info about the protocols
Adding the nginx-rtmp module to nginx might be what you're looking for if you need a single-product solution
https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

Answer 3

I use this and it works properly. (Ubuntu 12.04 TLS server)
Step by step:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl-dev
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.6.0.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/archive/master.zip
tar -zxvf nginx-1.6.0.tar.gz
unzip master.zip
cd nginx-1.6.0
./configure --with-http_ssl_module --add-module=../nginx-rtmp-module-master --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module
make
sudo make install
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
NGINX Config: (/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf)
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
rtmp {
server {
listen 1935;
chunk_size 4000;
# video on demand for flv files
application vod {
play /var/flvs;
}
# video on demand for mp4 files
application vod2 {
play /var/mp4s;
}
}
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
server {
listen 80;
server_name 192.168.52.16;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
# This URL provides RTMP statistics in XML
location /stat {
rtmp_stat all;
rtmp_stat_stylesheet stat.xsl;
}
location /stat.xsl {
# XML stylesheet to view RTMP stats.
# Copy stat.xsl wherever you want
# and put the full directory path here
root /var/www/;
}
location /hls {
# Serve HLS fragments
types {
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
video/mp2t ts;
}
alias /tmp/app;
expires -1;
}
# location /hds {
# f4f; # Use the HDS handler to manage requests
# # serve content from the following location
# alias /var/www/video;
# }
location /video {
mp4;
flv;
mp4_buffer_size 4M;
mp4_max_buffer_size 10M;
}
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
#}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# root html;
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# fastcgi_index index.php;
# fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
# include fastcgi_params;
#}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
}
Save the config file and:
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
Next...
Create two directories:
mkdir /var/flvs
mkdir /var/mp4s
You need copy an mp4 file to the mp4s directory. For example: sample.mp4
Finaly
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
Try:
rtmp://your_server_ip/vod2/sample.mp4
(suggest: you use the VLC media player)
or html code
<html>
<head>
<title>RTMP Video</title>
<!-- flowplayer javascript component -->
<script src="http://releases.flowplayer.org/js/flowplayer-3.2.12.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="player" style="width:644px;height:480;margin:0 auto;text-align:center">
<img src="images/background.jpg" height="480" width="644" /></div>
<script>
$f("player", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf", {
clip: {
url: 'sample.mp4',
scaling: 'fit',
provider: 'hddn'
},
plugins: {
hddn: {
url: "swf/flowplayer.rtmp-3.2.13.swf",
// netConnectionUrl defines where the streams are found
netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://your_server_ip:1935/vod2/'
}
},
canvas: {
backgroundGradient: 'none'
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>