Allow streaming to general RTMP endpoint

First off, YouTube streaming is one of the most exciting new features (at least new to me!).

Right now, adding the stream key allows livestreaming to YouTube. But since the RTMP url is simple rtmp://$serverUrl/$streamKey, could we instead make YouTube a subset of this feature, perhaps with specific instructions? If this setting was more general, then we could use services like restream.io to easily send streams to many services 😃

[dom-robinson]

For interest i tweaked my own install to support ‘any’ RTMP output (I also modded the output to add a news ticker over the top of the streaming output but that is probably a bit specific to my own use case)

The mod is quite simple:

Edit lines 34 and 35 of src/main/kotlin/org/jitsi/jibri/service/impl/StreamingJibriService.kt

private const val YOUTUBE_URL = "rtmp:/"
private const val STREAMING_MAX_BITRATE = 2976

note the single '/' after rtmp:/ - since the YOUTUBE_URL is used throughout the code base then removing it or leaving it blank ends up prefixing anything you type into the stream key box on the UI with a ‘/’ causing problems.

My mod means that you need to then enter the server/app/streamkey format in the UI stream key box.

For example i could use

ingest.id3as.com/live/HJr5JJueX9

Which the code now formats to rtmp://ingest.id3as.com/live/HJr5JJueX9 and passes to FFMPEG which then happily makes the connection. It is cheating slightly since in effect the key includes the server and app name, but since ffmpeg just sees a complete string as the streaming target it works just fine.

Hope that helps someone 😃

[bgrozev]

We have this on our list (I’ve volunteered to add it), but I don’t know when we’ll get to it.