LIVE555 Proxy Server

The "LIVE555 Proxy Server" is a unicast RTSP server - built from the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" software - that acts as a 'proxy' for one or more 'back-end' unicast or multicast RTSP/RTP streams (i.e., served by other server(s)).

The key feature of a proxy server is that it reads each 'back-end' stream only once, regardless of how many separate clients are streaming from the proxy server. This makes the proxy server ideal, for example, for streaming from a RTSP-enabled video camera (which might not be able to handle more than one connection at a time).

                                                      --> [RTSP client1]
[back-end RTSP/RTP stream] --> [LIVE555 Proxy Server] --> [RTSP client2]
                                                      ...
                                                      --> [RTSP clientN]

LIVE555 Proxy Server for Docker

Automated build of LIVE555 Proxy Server.
This build applies patch to increase OutPacketBuffer::maxSize to 169872 bytes (100000 bytes default).

Usage

Provide the RTSP urls to your Docker container as the command property.

A single back-end stream will be proxied to the endpoint rtsp://hostname:[554|8554]/proxyStream

Multiple back-end streams will be proxied to corresponding endpoints rtsp://hostname/proxyStream-1, rtsp://hostname:[554|8554]/proxyStream-2, ..., rtsp://hostname:[554|8554]/proxyStream-n

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container.

docker-compose

version: '2'
services:
  live555-proxy-server:
    image: paradisi/live555-proxy-server
    container_name: live555-proxy-server
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 554:554
      - 8554:8554
    command: -v <rtsp-url-1> ... <rtsp-url-n>
    restart: unless-stopped

docker cli

docker run -d \
  --name=live555-proxy-server \
  --net=host \
  -p 554:554 \
  -p 8554:8554 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  paradisi/live555-proxy-server \
  -v <rtsp-url-1> ... <rtsp-url-n>