mediamtx

New minor features

• HLS: add new parameter hlsSegmentMaxSize that prevents RAM exhaustion

Fixes and improvements

• General: do not print raw bytes into logs; print hex dump instead
• General: send query values to external authentication service
• General: save regexp groups in G1, G2 env variables instead of 1, 2 (#642)
• General: on Linux/macOS, launch external commands directly without using the shell
• RTSP source: fix memory leak that happened when a PLAY request failed
• RTSP source: send keepalive requests within the session timeout. This fixes a lot of timeouts with the UDP protocol (#702)
• RTSP source: fix crash in case a PLAY request fails before receiving the response
• RTSP server: send session timeout to clients through the session header (#702)
• RTSP server: allow again H264 tracks without SPS or PPS in the SDP (#787)
• HLS muxer: create first segment only after the first IDR is received
• HLS muxer: set audio codec mime according to mpeg4 type
• HLS muxer, RTMP server: support H264 tracks that contains extra data in sprop-parameter-set

New minor features

• Add new parameter 'runOnReady'. This is called when a stream is ready, whether it is published or proxied, and allows to save to disk proxied streams. It replaces 'runOnPublish'. (#752)

Fixes and improvements

• General: fix freeze when server is shut down and runOnPublish is not empty
• RTSP source: fix error 'invalid transport header: encoding/hex: invalid byte: U+0020' with some Hikvision cameras
• RTSP source: fix '401 Unauthorized' error when automatically switching protocol with some Hikvision cameras
• HLS server, RTMP server: fix timestamp decoding in case of an overflow followed by a negative time difference

Fixes and improvements

• HLS: restore Android compatibility, in particular the case in which the stream has an audio track and the video is black (#749)
• HLS: fix intermittent audio on iOS
• HLS: print exact reason why a muxer is closed

New minor features

• support external authentication (#504) (#517)
• make regexp groups available to custom commands (#642)

Fixes and improvements

• General: do not wait for external commands to exit during runtime
• General: print a message when a custom command exits suddently
• HLS, RTMP: compute duration correctly in case of an RTP overflow
• HLS, RTMP: fix DTS generation, avoid non-increasing DTS
• HLS: upgrade hls.js and enable progressive mode

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP server: write UDP packets in parallel. This increases bandwidth and prevents freezes caused by lagging readers.
• RTSP server: log error if config parsing fails
• RTSP server, rtsp source: send receiver reports only after receiving a sender report
• RTSP source: send receiver reports even with sourceAnyPortEnable (#698)
• RTSP source: set ServerName when using TLS (#708)
• HLS: correctly compute segment duration

Fixes and improvements

• General: fix crash that happens when using an invalid log file (#706)
• RTSP source: support cameras that don't provide SPS and PPS inside the SDP (#411) (#707)
• RTSP source: fix EOF error that happens when using TCP with some cameras (#548)
• RTSP server: validate announced tracks
• RTSP server: reply with code 454 when session is not found

New minor features

• RTSP: support reading with VLC and multicast

Fixes and improvements

• General: switch to go 1.17
• General: close all connections gracefully when shutting down the server (#682)
• General: change log level of path open / close message to Debug
• RTSP source: support reading from servers that use random UDP ports (#691)

New minor features

• API: add /v1/hlsmuxers/list endpoint
• Metrics: add hls_muxers metric

Fixes and improvements

• General: do not add an 'all' path automatically if not present in the configuration file
• General: fix automatic deletion of regexp paths (#664) (#680)
• General: allow to set logLevel: error in config
• General: remove count of readers and publishers from log lines
• General: use opened / closed instead of created / destroyed in logs
• General: log the exact reason why a path is closed
• RTSP server: make VLC-related error message more clear
• RTSP server: print opened listeners in a single line
• RTSP source: fix detection of GET_PARAMETER support
• HLS: fix race condition
• Metrics: implement per-path metrics
• API docs: add missing HLS source to /v1/paths/list

Fixes and improvements

• General: add "error" log level
• General: print log levels with 3 characters, tidy up errors
• RTSP: make sourceFingerprint optional and allow standard validation of RTSPS server certificates
• RTSP: print exact reason when a session is destroyed (#649)
• HLS: allow disabling HTTPS validation by using sourceFingerprint (#665)
• API: sort arrays in configuration (#644)

Fixes and improvements

• Fix regression that prevented usage of logLevel: debug

Fixes and improvements

• fix regression that prevented setting config slices with env variables (#612)

Fixes and improvements

• General: avoid crash in case of invalid H264 SPS (#590)
• General: add log messages when runOnPublish, runOnConnect, runOnRead are started or stopped
• General: print log messages about custom commands closing after they are closed
• General: avoid deadlock when a runOnPublish command is reading and the publisher times out (#595) (#495)
• General: avoid deadlock when a runOnDemand command is used and a path is deleted
• General: close custom commands with SIGINT again (#495)
• General: return error in case of non-existent parameters in the configuration file
• General: use crypto/rand instead of math/rand to avoid port conflicts and security issues
• RTSP: do not allow a session to setup UDP tracks from different IPs
• RTSP: do not allow a reader to use the same UDP ports of another reader
• RTSP: do not allow a client to control a session created with a different IP
• RTMP: do not raise an error in case of metadata packets (#577)
• RTMP: run runOnRead command also with RTMP readers
• HLS source: avoid crash when proxing HLS (#558)
• API: support working with path configs that contains slashes (#581)
• API: decode durations from strings instead of numbers

New minor features

• support proxying HLS streams

Fixes and improvements

• HLS: insert segments into playlist only after they're complete. In this way, EXT-X-TARGETDURATION and EXTINF are always filled correctly and playback is much smoother
• HLS: fix discontinuity of TS counters between segments. This avoids errors in VLC
• HLS: serve primary playlist (index.m3u8) and stream playlist (stream.m3u8) separately
• HLS: remove initial difference of 2secs between PTS and DTS of H264. This decreases latency
• HLS: send PCR periodically
• HLS: do not send DTS if PTS = DTS
• RTSP source: support servers that change interleaved IDs
• RTMP: print clearer error message in case no H264/AAC tracks are found
• RTMP: remove initial difference of 2secs between PTS and DTS of H264
• API: fix concurrency issue when creating multiple path configs at once (#542)
• API: normalize entity names
• API: return rtspsSessions in case of RTSPS sessions
• General: do not allow closed static sources to set a path as ready
• General: print 'ready' only when a source is really ready
• General: fix crash when manually pushing to an ondemand path

Fixes and improvements

• General: close custom commands with SIGQUIT instead of SIGINT (#495)
• General: fill version correctly (#503)
• HLS: fix compatibility with video.js, iOS Safari, macOS Safari
• HLS, RTMP: print clearer error messages (#501)
• HLS: reply with 404 to invalid requests
• HLS: set default segment count to 3
• HLS: write PMT/PAT tables once at the beginning of every TS segment
• HLS: increase video size up to 100% of the page (#480)
• HLS: speed up loading by decreasing PTS
• HLS: send PCR once, at the beginning of every TS segment
• API: log requests and responses even in case of code 404
• API: log right protocol version of responses

New minor features

• Metrics: new metrics system that provides more data (#492)
• API: add "state" field to RTSP sessions and RTMP connections
• API: add RTSPS endpoints to list and kick RTSPS sessions

Fixes and improvements

• General: fix crash that happens when sourceOnDemand is true and a source times out
• HLS: fix freeze when sourceOnDemand is yes and multiple sources are requested at the same time (#493)
• API: make sure that entities are deleted immediately after a kick request

New major features

• Add an HTTP API to query and control the server. Documentation is available here.
• HLS: new option hlsAlwaysRemux to always remux streams into HLS, not only when requested

Fixes and improvements

• (BREAKING) general: rename readIps and PublishIps into readIPs and publishIPs
• (BREAKING) general: rename "record" source value into "publisher"
• (BREAKING) general: change default listen IP of metrics and pprof to 127.0.0.1
• general: reload only rtsp server when authMethods is changed
• general: fix multiple freezes during shutdown of components
• general: Allow dot and tilde as part of paths
• general: Minor spelling fix
• HLS: make sure to send entire TS segments to clients
• HLS: reject methods other than GET and OPTIONS

Fixes and improvements:

• rename arm6 and arm7 releases into armv6 and armv7
• RTSP server: support setupping tracks with arbitrary interleaved IDs (#402)
• HLS: fix CORS issues with HLS player using authorization
• HLS: add Access-Control-Allow-Origin to every HTTP response; add parameter hlsAllowOrigin (#415)
• HLS: skip frames received before the first IDR frame
• HLS: fix crash on armv7 (#440)
• HLS: add Content-Type header (#408)

New minor features

• RTSP server: support reading with UDP-multicast (#214) (#324)
• RTSP source: support proxing with UDP-multicast
• RTSP source: add option sourceAnyPortEnable to support cameras that don't provide server ports (#407)

Fixes and improvements

• switch to go 1.16
• HLS converter: fill correctly EXTINF and EXT-X-TARGETDURATION in stream manifest (#418)
• HLS converter: do not print an error message if there isn't any error
• RTSP source: always set Range header inside PLAY requests, fixing compatibility with Parrot Streaming Server (#413)

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP source: fix authentication during SETUP, preventing 401s during automatic protocol switches (#392)
• RTSP source: support servers that send frames with a frequency lower than 1sec
• RTSP source: support sources with empty passwords (#395)
• RTSP source: support SSRCs with missing zeros (#396)
• HLS: add CORS header to all responses (#389)
• HLS: support paths with slashes (#381)

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP source: support cameras that use non-conventional Transport headers
• RTSP reader/publisher: strictly follow the specification when generating SDP of AAC tracks (#112)
• RTSP reader/publisher: add SSRC to Transport header (#380)
• HLS reader: skip packets that are part of frames sent before initalization of the converter (#374)
• General: fix crash that happens during override of publisher
• General: code rewritten to use Golang contexts