Using rtsp with another source

[augustodinizl]

Greetings,

I have a doubt, and was wondering if here https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server#on-demand-publishing i can use another program as video source, i was planning to use this one https://github.com/arthar360/TaniDVR as source for the above code, is this currently doable?

[aler9]

Hello, you should be able to stream from a DVR to rtsp-simple-server by combining together TaniDVR and ffmpeg in this way

tanidvr -m 1 -c 1 -m 1 -t host -u user -w pass | ffmpeg -r 25 -i - -c copy -f rtsp rtsp://localhost:8554/stream

Unfortunately i don't own a DVR and i can't test it.

[augustodinizl]

@aler9 , SUCCESS!!! i've got it to work with live stream without using the file output (.mkv)
now i will try to close the pipe when it get the ondemand closes signal...
for documentation, i've used the following line inside rtsp-simple-server.yml:
'streamX:
runOnDemand: tanidvr -m 1 -t 192.168.0.xxx -u user -w password -c X | ffmpeg -r 25 -i - -c copy -f rtsp rtsp://localhost:$RTSP_PORT/$RTSP_PATH
runOnDemandRestart: yes'

[augustodinizl]

@aler9 it is possible to send a kill process signal to rtsp-simple-server when i get the ondemand feed closed?

[aler9]

Add killall at the end of the command:

streamX:
  runOnDemand: tanidvr -m 1 -t 192.168.0.xxx -u user -w password -c X | ffmpeg -r 25 -i - -c copy -f rtsp rtsp://localhost:$RTSP_PORT/$RTSP_PATH; killall rtsp-simple-server

[augustodinizl]

unfortunatelly, there's no effect on that, tanidvr is still running when the feed is closed, sorry, i did'nt make myself clear about that issue, rtsp-simple server works fine, tanidvr and ffmpeg aren't closing

[augustodinizl]

Well, i couldn't been able to achieve the full features that i wanted, but hey, it's open-source! there's always a way, since i'm using the rtsp-simple-server to stream a feed to a home assistant instance, i've been able to use ssh to send the needed commands to the host, so, so far so good... again, MANY THANKS @aler9 for the awesome work, and for the availabillity!

[DBiao]

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