Watch With Me

What is Watch With Me?

Watch With Me is an open source way to live stream video files at a certain time to other people quickly using AWS.

The concept

Start up a server using the cloud formation script
Fill out the parameters including a url of the movie
Enjoy your movie

Use cases

You want to have a live movie night with friends and family

How to set up using AWS

As easy as pressing this button and entering the parameters

A Dockerfile installing NGINX, nginx-rtmp-module and FFmpeg from source with default settings for HLS live streaming. Built on Alpine Linux.

Nginx 1.16.1 (Stable version compiled from source)
nginx-rtmp-module 1.2.1 (compiled from source)
ffmpeg 4.2.1 (compiled from source)
Default HLS settings (See: nginx.conf)

Usage

Server

Pull docker image and run:

docker pull alfg/nginx-rtmp
docker run -it -p 1935:1935 -p 8080:80 --rm alfg/nginx-rtmp

Build and run container from source:

docker build -t nginx-rtmp .
docker run -it -p 1935:1935 -p 8080:80 --rm nginx-rtmp

Stream live content to:

rtmp://<server ip>:1935/stream/$STREAM_NAME

SSL

To enable SSL, see nginx.conf and uncomment the lines:

listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate     /opt/certs/example.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /opt/certs/example.com.key;

This will enable HTTPS using a self-signed certificate supplied in /certs. If you wish to use HTTPS, it is highly recommended to obtain your own certificates and update the ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key paths.

I recommend using Certbot from Let's Encrypt.

Environment Variables

This Docker image uses envsubst for environment variable substitution. You can define additional environment variables in nginx.conf as ${var} and pass them in your docker-compose file or docker command.

OBS Configuration

Stream Type: Custom Streaming Server
URL: rtmp://localhost:1935/stream
Stream Key: hello

Watch Stream

In Safari, VLC or any HLS player, open:

http://<server ip>:8080/live/$STREAM_NAME.m3u8

Example Playlist: http://localhost:8080/live/hello.m3u8
VideoJS Player
FFplay: ffplay -fflags nobuffer rtmp://localhost:1935/stream/hello

FFmpeg Build

$ ffmpeg -buildconf

ffmpeg version 4.2.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 6.4.0 (Alpine 6.4.0)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --enable-version3 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-small --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libvpx --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libass --enable-libwebp --enable-librtmp --enable-postproc --enable-avresample --enable-libfreetype --enable-openssl --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --extra-libs='-lpthread -lm'
  libavutil      56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100
  libavcodec     58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100
  libavformat    58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100
  libavdevice    58.  8.100 / 58.  8.100
  libavfilter     7. 57.100 /  7. 57.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  5.100 /  5.  5.100
  libswresample   3.  5.100 /  3.  5.100
  libpostproc    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100

  configuration:
    --prefix=/usr/local
    --enable-version3
    --enable-gpl
    --enable-nonfree
    --enable-small
    --enable-libmp3lame
    --enable-libx264
    --enable-libx265
    --enable-libvpx
    --enable-libtheora
    --enable-libvorbis
    --enable-libopus
    --enable-libfdk-aac
    --enable-libass
    --enable-libwebp
    --enable-librtmp
    --enable-postproc
    --enable-avresample
    --enable-libfreetype
    --enable-openssl
    --disable-debug
    --disable-doc
    --disable-ffplay
    --extra-libs='-lpthread -lm'

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