webhooks and recording

[dottgonzo]

hi,
after several years using rtmp services, i'm trying this rtsp server and i'm looking for some functionality that seems missed:

1. will be supported "natively" some kind of recording process to store recording paths?
2. there is some kind of functionality that allows to notificate another server when a stream is start or reconect, like a webhook (maybe with a delayed timeout)?

[aler9]

Hello,

will be supported "natively" some kind of recording process to store recording paths

At the moment the recording is not native (since this would require supporting containers and codecs, but maybe one day we'll get to this point), but nothing forbids from using ffmpeg together with rtsp-simple-server to achieve the result:

paths:
  mystream:
    runOnPublish: ffmpeg -i rtsp://localhost:$RTSP_PORT/$RTSP_PATH -c copy -f mpegts $(date +'%s').ts 
    runOnPublishRestart: yes

This configuration saves all the streams published to path mystream as TS files.

there is some kind of functionality that allows to notificate another server when a stream is start or reconect, like a webhook (maybe with a delayed timeout)?

Yes:

paths:
  mystream:
    runOnPublish: ./on_publish.sh

create a file named on_publish.sh with the following content

#!/bin/sh
trap 'curl http://webhook-on-disconnect' INT
curl http://webhook-on-connect
sleep 86400

if you don't care about the disconnect webhook, you can simply do:

paths:
  mystream:
    runOnPublish: http://webhook-on-connect

[t3therdev]

This concept works great on linux. Do you have a good way to do a webhook on windows? that we can call a webservice to notify on publish? I guess we could build our own exe to call it, but it would be good to know your thoughts.

also, the same for disconnect.

[aler9]

@t3therdev use Powershell, Cygwin or build an exe with Go - scripting is much more versatile than any new feature that can be added to the server.
Some software are shipped with interpreters, like Lua or Python, but nowadays there's a decent scripting engine in every OS too.