Serve HLS with Docker

[moritz157]

Which version are you using?

v0.15.0

Question

I currently run rtsp-simple-server using a docker container, as described in the Readme and so far it works perfectly . Now I want to convert the stream to HLS. Therefore I changed the configuration as needed. But how do I access the generated HLS-stream? The Readme suggests to serve the outputted .h3u8 and .ts files using a web server. But what is the best method to do that, if the files are only outputted inside the container?

I am not really experienced with Docker, so probably there is an obvious solution I missed.

I would really appreciate any help.

[aler9]

Hello, you simply need to build a docker image with

• rtsp-simple-server
• ffmpeg
• nginx

You can do it by saving this into a file called Dockerfile

FROM aler9/rtsp-simple-server AS rtsp

FROM alpine:3.12
RUN apk add --no-cache ffmpeg nginx

RUN mkdir /run/nginx
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

COPY --from=rtsp /rtsp-simple-server /
COPY rtsp-simple-server.yml /

ENTRYPOINT [ "sh", "-c", "nginx && /rtsp-simple-server" ]

save this into rtsp-simple-server.yml

paths:
  all:
    runOnPublish: cd /var/www && ffmpeg -re -i rtsp://localhost:$RTSP_PORT/$RTSP_PATH -c copy -f hls -hls_time 1 -hls_list_size 3 -hls_flags delete_segments -hls_allow_cache 0 stream.m3u8
    runOnPublishRestart: yes

save this into nginx.conf

server {
        listen 80 default_server;

        location / {
                root /var/www;
        }
}

Compile everything into an image

docker build . -t myimage

Launch the image

docker run --rm -it --network=host myimage

The published stream will be available on

http://localhost/stream.m3u8

[aler9]

HLS support is coming - reading with HLS is supported in main, and proxying HLS is coming soon.

[aler9]

This feature is now available in v0.17.3