Day: June 19, 2016

crtmpserver + ffmpeg

This post will show the process of installing , running and using crtmpserver on ubuntu 64 bit machine with gstreamer .

gcc and cmake

We shall build gstreamer directly from sources . For this we first need to determine if gcc is installed on the machine .

If not installed then  run the following command

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages( C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, Go etc).

sudo apt-get install build-essential

once it is isnatlled it can be tested with printing the version

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cmake is a software compilation tool.It uses compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the differemt compiler environment .

Crtmpserver

To get the source code from git install git first . Then clone the project from https://github.com/j0sh/crtmpserver

sudo apt-get git
git clone https://github.com/j0sh/crtmpserver.git
cd crtmpserver/builders/cmake

Next we create all makefile’s using cmake .

cmake .

Output should look as follows

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Run make to do compilation

make

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Run using following command . If should print out a list of ports and their respecting functions

./crtmpserver/crtmpserver crtmpserver/crtmpserver.lua

+—————————————————————————–+
| Services|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
| c | ip | port| protocol stack name | application name |
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 1112| inboundJsonCli| admin|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 1935| inboundRtmp| appselector|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 8081| inboundRtmps| appselector|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 8080| inboundRtmpt| appselector|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 6666| inboundLiveFlv| flvplayback|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 9999| inboundTcpTs| flvplayback|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 6665| inboundLiveFlv| proxypublish|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 8989| httpEchoProtocol| samplefactory|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 8988| echoProtocol| samplefactory|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+
|tcp| 0.0.0.0| 1111| inboundHttpXmlVariant| vptests|
+—+—————+—–+————————-+————————-+

If you the following types of errors while pushing a stream to crtmpserver , they just denote they your pipe is not using the correct format.

/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpacceptor.cpp:154 Client connected: 127.0.0.1:55524 -> 0.0.0.0:8080
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:119 Handlers count changed: 11->12 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/http/basehttpprotocol.cpp:281 Headers section too long
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/http/basehttpprotocol.cpp:153 Unable to read response headers: CTCP(16) <-> TCP(13) <-> [IHTT(14)] <-> IH4R(15)
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpcarrier.cpp:89 Unable to signal data available
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:129 Handlers count changed: 12->11 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/protocolmanager.cpp:45 Enqueue for delete for protocol [IH4R(15)]
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/application/baseclientapplication.cpp:240 Protocol [IH4R(15)] unregistered from application: appselector
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpacceptor.cpp:154 Client connected: 127.0.0.1:44964 -> 0.0.0.0:9999
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:119 Handlers count changed: 11->12 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/ts/inboundtsprotocol.cpp:211 I give up. I'm unable to detect the ts chunk size
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/ts/inboundtsprotocol.cpp:136 Unable to determine chunk size
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpcarrier.cpp:89 Unable to signal data available
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:129 Handlers count changed: 12->11 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/protocolmanager.cpp:45 Enqueue for delete for protocol [ITS(17)]
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/application/baseclientapplication.cpp:240 Protocol [ITS(17)] unregistered from application: flvplayback
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpacceptor.cpp:154 Client connected: 127.0.0.1:37754 -> 0.0.0.0:1935
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:119 Handlers count changed: 11->12 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/rtmp/inboundrtmpprotocol.cpp:77 Handshake type not implemented: 85
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/rtmp/basertmpprotocol.cpp:309 Unable to perform handshake
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpcarrier.cpp:89 Unable to signal data available
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:129 Handlers count changed: 12->11 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/protocolmanager.cpp:45 Enqueue for delete for protocol [IR(19)]
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/application/baseclientapplication.cpp:240 Protocol [IR(19)] unregistered from application: appselector
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpacceptor.cpp:154 Client connected: 127.0.0.1:48368 -> 0.0.0.0:6666
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/liveflv/inboundliveflvprotocol.cpp:51 _waitForMetadata: 1
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:119 Handlers count changed: 11->12 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/liveflv/baseliveflvappprotocolhandler.cpp:45 protocol CTCP(16) <-> TCP(20) <-> [ILFL(21)] registered to app flvplayback
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/liveflv/inboundliveflvprotocol.cpp:102 Frame too large: 6324058
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/tcpcarrier.cpp:89 Unable to signal data available
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/netio/epoll/iohandlermanager.cpp:129 Handlers count changed: 12->11 IOHT_TCP_CARRIER
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/protocolmanager.cpp:45 Enqueue for delete for protocol [ILFL(21)]
/home/altanai/crtmpserver/sources/thelib/src/protocols/liveflv/baseliveflvappprotocolhandler.cpp:58 protocol [ILFL(21)] unregistered from app flvplayback

ffmpeg

Download and install ffmpeg from git

 git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg

Once the source code is obtained we need to configure , make and make install it .
We need to have following plugins for muxing and ecoding like libx264 for h264parse , so we configure with the following options

./configure \
  --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
  --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
  --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include" \
  --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib" \
  --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
  --enable-gpl \
  --enable-libass \
  --enable-libfreetype \
  --enable-libopus \
  --enable-libtheora \
  --enable-libvorbis \
  --enable-libx264 \
  --enable-libx265 \
  --enable-nonfree

the make and make install

make
sudo make install

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Incase of errors  on ffmpeg configure command , you need to install the respective missing / not found library

libass

sudo apt-get install libass-dev

lamemp3

sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev

libaacplus

sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install libtool

wget -O libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz
cd libaacplus-2.0.2
./autogen.sh --with-parameter-expansion-string-replace-capable-shell=/bin/bash --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-static

make
sudo make install

libvorbis
compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channe. It is from the same reank as MPEG4 AAC

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.2.tar.bz2
tar -zxvf libvorbis-1.3.2.tar.bz2
cd libvorbis-1.3.2
./configure && make && make install

libx264
encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression format, and is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264
cd x264
./configure --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi --enable-static --disable-opencl
make
sudo make install

libvpx
libvpx is an emerging open video compression library which is gaining popularity for distributing high definition video content on the internet.

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx
cd libvpx
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=libvpx --pkgversion="1:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no     --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default

librtmp
librtmp provides support for the RTMP content streaming protocol developed by Adobe and commonly used to distribute content to flash video players on the web.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
cd /home/pi/src
git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/rtmpdump
cd rtmpdump
make SYS=posix
sudo checkinstall --pkgname=rtmpdump --pkgversion="2:$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-git" --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --default

Reference:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/RaspberryPi
http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=howto:linux:install:raspbian
http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Additionally “pkg-config –list-all” command list down all the installed libraries.

RTMP streaming

1.start the stream from linux machine using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 -f flv -s qvga -b 750000 -ar 11025 -metadata streamName=aaa "tcp://<hidden_ip>:6666/live";

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2.view the incoming packets and stats on terminal at crtmpserver

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3.playback the livestream from another machine

using ffplay
ffplay -i rtmp://server_ip:1935/live/ccc

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RTSP streaming

1.start the rtsp stream from linux machine using ffmpeg

here using resolution 320×240 and stream name test

ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 -an -r 10 -c:v libx264 -q 1 -f rtsp -metadata title=test rtsp://server_ip:5554/flvplayback

crtmp2

2.view the incoming packets and stats on terminal at crtmpserver

3.playback the livestream from another machine using

ffplay

ffplay rtsp://server_ip:5554/flvplayback/test

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VLC

vlc rtsp://server_ip:5554/flvplayback/test