This is a simple off-the-shelf kit for streaming video using nginx-rtmp-module, ffmpeg and a simple Django application. Individually these pieces are all extremely configurable, almost to a fault in many use cases. This application provides them packaged as a turn key application designed to make full use of a single server. Since it uses HLS and HTTP to deliver all video content it should theoretically be possible to dramatically scale up the user count of this system simply by placing CloudFront or another proxy-based CDN in front of the system.
Run the following scripts. Note the build command can take ~10 minutes as ffmpeg requires a lot of compiling. This is entirely normal.
git clone git@github.com:skyride/nginx-stream-kit.git
cd nginx-stream-kit
docker-compose build
docker-compose run --rm web ./manage.py migrate
docker-compose run --rm web ./manage.py collectstatic
echo SECRET_KEY=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w ${1:-32} | head -n 1` >> .env
You can create an account to login to the /admin panel using the following command:
docker-compose run --rm web ./manage.py createsuperuser
docker-compose up
Access the system at http://localhost:2323/. You can stream to the system using any RTMP streaming tool at
rtmp://localhost/ingest/{STREAM_KEY}. The stream key at current is anything you want. The stream can then be
accessed at http://localhost:2323/watch/{STREAM_KEY} or from the list at http://localhost:2323/.
In production use this command to bring it up with gunicorn instead of the Django local development server as a background process.
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d