Building a live streaming platform

Part I

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Requisites

Before running "Usage" commands you need to create a Docker network to link containers

docker network create live-stream

You may need sudo to run it as root.

Usage

To run any command listed here, make sure you have make and Docker installed.

Run a container with NGINX-RTMP

make runserver

Ingest a live video using ffmpeg

make ingest

Part II

Web Application

The web application is used to authorize the incoming streams. Is there a streamer you like? Some famous person you like the videos? I watch some game streamers. How does a video platform know that your preffered Youtuber is himself/herself?

Before starting our web application, we need to create the database to hold our publisher credentials:

make create-db

And then we can use docker-compose to start our live streaming service:

make run-live

Now we have a server running. We can send HTTP requests to the server to experiment it.

API

We can test our API using cURL, making some requests and reading the response body along with our application logs.

/auth (simple - with name and key)

curl -XPOST -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://localhost:9090/auth -d "name=foos&psk=bar"

/auth (improved - with key only)

curl -XPOST -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://localhost:9090/auth -d "name=bar"