bluenviron

mediamtx

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bluenviron / mediamtx

mediamtx

Ready-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP live media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback real-time video and audio streams.

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2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
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2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1

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sunshine-o·Aug 5, 2025

Frigate has really done a fantastic job packing everything together. For basic needs go2rtc [0] or MediaMTX [1] can be enough. But once you need some form of intelligence on top AFAIK unfortunately there is no unixiy tool that can take a stream and easily define and apply a model on it. You will have to code something in python. - [0] https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc - [1] https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

In Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

ycnews·Feb 13, 2025Submission

Ready-to-use SRT/WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS server/proxy (publish vid/audio streams

3 points · Open discussion

bpmedley·Oct 31, 2024

I believe mediamtx can ingest the RTMP and present to a browser, via HLS or WebRTC. https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

In Ask HN: What's the minimum-friction way to stream audio from a handheld device?

jchoksi·Sep 15, 2024

An alternative project I was looking to use with my Raspberry Pi Zero WH's was mediamtx. https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx?tab=readme-ov-file#ra...

In Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi

goodells·Jun 23, 2023

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc. The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do. It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues. [1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx [2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

In Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?

sitkack·May 29, 2023

So you want the server to make an HTTP call to an endpoint to deliver when streams change their status? https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1462 Looks like there might be a work around.

In MediaMTX: Zero-dependency server for live video and audio streams

pyrox·May 28, 2023

This link is useless, it just links to a substack article with a basic single-paragraph description of the project. A better link would be https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx, the actual URL to the project.

In MediaMTX: Zero-dependency server for live video and audio streams

lesuorac·Oct 4, 2022

I've used an rtsp sever [1] along with hls.js [2] so that I can have it in a nicer webpage and then stuck it all behind a vpn (wireguard). [1]: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server [2]: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/

In 'A fluke': The oldest webcam is still watching over San Francisco

lesuorac·Mar 15, 2022

I guess it all depends on how nice you want things to look but hls.js [1] & rtsp-simple-server [2] are pretty easy to integrate. Works well enough for me as a slingbox alternative but I'm also not running it as a business. [1]: https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/ [2]: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server

walrus01·Nov 24, 2020

The CPU horsepower may be a limiting factor, but your best best for putting it together from common raspbian/debian software pieces would be using ffmpeg as an RTSP video stream server, and a separate way of encrypting the network traffic end to end (openvpn, wireguard, a more traditional ipsec tunnel, mounting a remote mount-point over sshfs and continually writing small temporary files to the destination, etc). Then at the destination end, have your choice of RTSP client/stream-receiving software pulling the video feed. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ffmpeg+rt... https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server https://news.mistserver.org/news/71/An+introduction+to+encod... Some of the back end software pieces to do it are not very dissimilar from a typical 'zoneminder' install on amd64 debian. Yeah I edited that in after

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I forgot to include it before hitting the post button... on something like a raspberry pi 3b+ or 4 you might get good results by using a video frame rate around 5fps. Or even if you went down to 2-3fps that would be functionally equivalent to a constant stream of still images, depending on what the stream is needed for. If it were a security camera that needs to see peoples' faces the frame rate could be too low, a moving person might pass through the frame without any good shots of their face. If you have lots of network bandwidth you can do a great deal with ffmpeg by not transcoding the video from the format it's acquired from, which is very helpful on systems with limited CPU power. https://news.mistserver.org/news/71/An+introduction+to+encod...

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