Experiment with nginx-http-flv-module

nginx.conf

worker_processes  auto; #should be 1 for Windows, for it doesn't support Unix domain socket

worker_rlimit_nofile 100000;


error_log logs/error.log error;

#if the module is compiled as a dynamic module and features relevant
#to RTMP are needed, the command below MUST be specified and MUST be
#located before events directive, otherwise the module won't be loaded
#or will be loaded unsuccessfully when NGINX is started
#load_module modules/ngx_rtmp_module.so;

events {
    worker_connections  10240;
    accept_mutex off;
    use epoll;
}

#thread_pool default threads=6 max_queue=65536;

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile on;
    sendfile_max_chunk 512k;
    #aio threads=default;
    #aio threads=default;
    #tcp_nopush on;

    # don't buffer data sent, good for small data bursts in real time
    #tcp_nodelay on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    server {
        listen 8080 reuseport;

        location / {
            root   /var/www;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }

        location /live {
            flv_live on; #open flv live streaming (subscribe)
	    #aio            on;
            chunked_transfer_encoding  on; #open 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' response

            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*'; #add additional HTTP header
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true'; #add additional HTTP header
        }

        location /stat {
            #configuration of push & pull status

            rtmp_stat all;
            rtmp_stat_stylesheet stat.xsl;
        }

        location /stat.xsl {
            root /var/www/rtmp; #specify in where stat.xsl located
        }

	location /hls {
            # Serve HLS fragments
            # Disable cache
	    #add_header Cache-Control no-cache;

            # CORS setup
	    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
	    add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length';
	    if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
		    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
		    add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
		    add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
		    add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
		    return 204;
	    }
            types {
                application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
                video/mp2t ts;
            }
            root /var/www;
            add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
        }
    }
}

rtmp_auto_push on;
rtmp_auto_push_reconnect 1s;
rtmp_socket_dir /var/www/sockets;

rtmp {
    out_queue   4096;
    out_cork    8;
    max_streams 64;

    server {
        listen 1935;

        application myapp {
            live on;
            gop_cache on; #open GOP cache for low latency
        }
    }

}

stack.yml

version: "3"

services:

  benchmark:
    image: williamyeh/wrk
    command: "-d 5m -t10 -c500 \"http://SERVER_ADDR:8080/live?app=myapp&stream=test\""
    deploy:
      mode: global
                  

Build and install

# ./configure  --add-module=../nginx-http-flv-module --with-http_ssl_module
# make -j 4 
# make install
# cp nginx.conf /usr/local/nginx/conf

stress server

# export HOST=
# docker run --rm williamyeh/wrk -d 5m -t10 -c1000 "http://$HOST:8080/live?app=myapp&stream=test" > /dev/null