Play Streamlink stream

[k2helix]

Streamlink is a tool that is able to play streams from sites such as Twitch or others, and can make that stream available in some port by using the option --player-external-http, so that the ip and port are logged when using it (for example: 127.0.0.1:12091)

Is there a way to pipe the stream Streamlink provides when using the option --player-external-http to video.js?

Just using ip:port as the video src does not seem to work.

[campones]

it's an interesting idea

[campones]

streamlink team (well currently only one is on it.. ) doesn't want to restream , i m pretty confident it would have been easy for them to implement the option to output to an rtmp server but.. . so what you do is pipe to stdout the streamlink input and then use ffmpeg to grab the input and restream where you want
if you don't want/know to compile ffmpeg, you can use a binary, works well too

[campones]

I also recently learnt there was a good fork of the nginx rtmp module (that is not maintained for a very long time now) https://github.com/winshining/nginx-http-flv-module that will be a good start. I actually installed this on a vmware and just copied my production server config and it works out of the box

[k2helix]

I have been able to start a working rtmp server to which I send the stream with streamlink and ffmpeg. However, in order for video.js to play it, it needs flash which is not something I can provide it. Any ideas?

[campones]

that's not possible since flash is obsolete . your rtmp server has to be setup in a way it transform rtmp input into hls or dash streams output

[k2helix]

It's been some time but I was able to resolve this some months ago by using node-rtmp-hls instead of nginx (with nginx the stream video was corrupted somehow).

I also made a script to do it automatically which I uploaded here.