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Nginx RTMP module on Ubuntu 18.04.md

update

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

install nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx -y
sudo apt-get install libnginx-mod-rtmp -y

Edit nginx.conf

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add to the end of nginx config

rtmp {
        server {
                listen 1935;
                chunk_size 4096;

                application live {
                        live on;
                        record off;
                        push rtmp://127.0.0.1:1936/rtmp/<<Facebook persistent stream key >>;

                }
        }
}

restart nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

If any errors occur at this stage recheck your configuration.

Test Setup

To test setup use OBS to send video and VLC Player to play video.

OBS >> Ngnix >> VLC Player

OBS Stream configuration

Settings>>Stream

Service: Custom Server: rtmp://<>/live Stream Key: test VLC Configuration

Open Network Stream>>Network

Please enter a network URL: rtmp://<>/live/test

Stunnel

sudo apt-get install stunnel4 -y

#Edit stunnel auto boot configuration sudo nano /etc/default/stunnel4

Change ENABLE from 0 to 1

ENABLE=1

Edit stunnel configuration

sudo nano /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

pid = /var/run/stunnel4/stunnel.pid
output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log

setuid = stunnel4
setgid = stunnel4

# https://www.stunnel.org/faq.html
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1

debug = 4

[fb-live]
client = yes
accept = 1936
connect = live-api-s.facebook.com:443
verifyChain = no

Enable enable after boot

sudo systemctl enable stunnel4.service

restart stunnel

sudo systemctl restart stunnel4.service

Any errors at this stage maybe due to error in the config. Double check Ports. ngnix an stunnel need to be on different ports when used on the same machine.

when i add rtmp part to nginx.conf i get this error

Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 nginx[8187]: nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "rtmp" in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:84
Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 nginx[8187]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 13 17:12:54 cdn-lt92 systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
root@cdn-lt92:~/nginx#

in your code change push rtmp://127.0.0.1:1936/rtmp/<>;
if not you will get that error code

Hi Can you post the codes to enable HLS?

what about linkedin ?
how can we solve it

"libnginx-mod-rtmp : Depends: nginx-common (= 1.14.0-0ubuntu1.10) but 1.22.0-1ppastableubuntu18.04.1 is to be installed"

Any idea how to get this installed on a 1.22 install?