In this post we will show how Niostreamer can be installed in Windows. We will setup RTMP server, push MP4 video using ffmpeg and play in with ffplay.
RTMP Server is the leading provider of Managed RTMP Servers. With RTMP Server selection you can have your wowza rtmp, adobe media or red5 ready in a few minutes. Originally, RTMP was used to transmit content between a video player and a hosting server, which was referred to as “RTMP delivery.” Today, its purpose is a bit different. In terms of the most modern live streaming setups, RTMP’s primary role is to deliver content from an encoder to an online video host. Step 1: Get a Server Box Believe it or not, RTMP is actually extremely light on system resources. Essentially it just grabs data from the input and forwards it on to the output, simple data transfer.
RTMP MiniServer can receive a signal from them, as well as send a signal to them using the NDI protocol. Use-case Your team member can send a signal from stadium to studio using OBS. Inside studio you can accept the signal by RTMP MiniServer and send to vMix for next production steps (add overlays, comments etc). An RTMP server is the technical setup that is used to receive an RTMP data stream via RTMP ingest. Basically, an RTMP server is equipped with the necessary tools to receive and decode video files that are being transported from an encoder or other source.
Niostreamer is provided for multiple operating systems. It's cross platform. For now, the native package for Windows is in progress, so we will use Docker to run Niostreamer on Windows.
First, Docker for desktop should be installed from official website
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Download the Installer from here: https://desktop.docker.com/win/stable/amd64/Docker Desktop Installer.exe
Follow the steps provided by insteller to prepare Docker for Desktop:
Restart Windows after installation completed:
Create docker-compose.yml with the following content:
Run
You will see message in logs:
Register new account in https://niostreamer.com and open this link in you browser
You will see in logs that instance has been registered:
And then you will see the new instance in web panel as well:
Now Niostreamer is ready to accept incoming connections from RTMP clients.
Create RTMP virtual host
In instance overview page press 'Add Virtual Host' button
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Enter virtual host and port and press 'Save'
To start virtual host the listener interface must be created. Open Virtual host page and press 'Add Listener'
Enter listening address and port and press 'Add'
Wait a little bit until instance is syncronized with control panel. You'll see the virtual host is started in streamer logs:
Niostreamer has opened TCP port 1935 and is ready to listen for incoming connections.
As a test stream we will use command line utility ffmpeg. We will try to stream popular video sample used to test video streams called 'Big Buck Bunny'.
Start the command from your machine:
Streaming is started now. niostreamer started to receive audio video data. Let's play incoming stream using ffplay utility:
You will see video window playing the target sample.
Niostreamer is a fully functional streaming server. It can convert incoming RTMP streams to other ones, i.e. HLS.
In next articles we will show how to stream RTMP to niostreamer and the share it as HLS to other players.
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Enjoy!