mediamtx

New major features

• Support reading streams with HLS; a web server is provided to serve HLS, conversion is automatic
• Support RTSP sessions; this allows a RTSP client to connect and disconnect to the server without stopping the stream (#149)
• allow to set a different listen IP for each listener (#343)

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP reader/publisher: fix crash that happened in case of invalid TCP frames (#348)
• RTMP source: apply read and write timeouts to connection initialization
• RTSP reader/publisher: support RTSP requests with empty header values (#368)
• RTMP reader/publisher: avoid errors when there are no NALUs in the queue
• General: fix default pprof address

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP source: fix inversion of track data that happened randomly in case of multiple tracks (#353)
• RTSP client: fix race condition during computation of RTP-Info that prevented clients from reading frames (#353)
• RTSP source: add mandatory parameter sourceFingerprint to validate server certificates and prevent man-in-the-middle attacks (#350)
• RTMP client: speed up initialization
• RTMP client: add and use DTS instead of clock time

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP/RTMP source: fix error 'no one is publishing to path' that happens after some seconds, when sourceOnDemand is enabled (#334)
• RTSP source: apply TCP timeout correctly and reconnect after a timeout (#335)
• RTSP source: build track URLs by using Content-Base when provided by server, fixing many timeouts
• RTSP source: ignore non-standard keys in headers (#336)
• RTMP client: speed up video reading by 1 frame
• RTMP client: speed up acceptance of clients by moving handshake inside client routine
• RTMP client: filter out SPS, PPS and AU NALUs when reading
• RTMP client: avoid "duplicate DTS" error when reading
• RTMP client: do not print errors in case of fragmented AAC frames

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP client: do not return a timeout error in case UDP packets are being received from a single track
• RTSP client: fix channel of RTCP packets, avoiding client timeouts
• RTSP source: support RTP-Info headers with paths instead of URLs (#250)
• RTSP source: support RTP-Infos with spaces (#333)
• RTMP client: fix client removal after an error

New minor features

• add parameter pprofPort to configure the port of the pprof listener

Fixes and improvements

• RTSP source: switch to TCP if no UDP packets have been received within a timeout (#173)
• RTSP source: do not exit in case UDP packets are being received from a single track, improving UDP robustness
• RTMP client: allow inserting path in the "Stream key" field of OBS
• RTMP client/source: support reading AAC frames bigger than 1460 bytes with RTMP (#206)
• RTMP client/source: support sampling rates different than 48khz when reading with RTMP
• RTMP client/source: aggregate together H264 NALUs that come from RTMP sources/clients, saving bandwidth
• try to raise the maximum number of number of open files on Linux, allowing more than a 1000 clients to connect to the server (#193)

New minor features

• add ability to configure metrics port (#235)
• add parameter disablePublisherOverride to disable publisher override (#230)

Fixes and improvements

• add RTP-Info to PLAY response, allowing VLC to display the right elapsed time (#233)
• prevent crash that happens in case of server socket errors, instead print errors (#193)

New major features

• Support reading with RTMP (#218)
• enable rtmp by default; add parameters to disable rtsp and rtmp

Fixes and improvements

• improve performance and eliminate idle load (#184)
• fix removal of RTMP clients
• fix reading mpegts-muxed streams with ffmpeg (#222)
• support OBS <= 25 and a lot more RTMP clients
• support some additional hikvision cameras (#227)
• fix error "frame length greater than maximum allowed" (#229)

Fixes and improvements

• drop existing publisher when a new publisher connects (#187)
• add parameter readBufferCount to support non-compliant servers or publishers (#211)

Fixes and improvements

• split configuration into sections
• send status 461 instead of error when multicast is used (#198)
• forbid usage of sourceOnDemand when source is not 'record'
• support relative fallback paths (#201)

New major features

• add a RTMP listener that allows to publish RTMP streams (#132)

Fixes and improvements

• increase path and headers maximum length (#192)
• speed up RTMP sources
• start runOnDemand even with clients that don't send DESCRIBE (#155)

New minor features

• add parameter listenIP to listen on a specific IP/interface (#166)
• support encrypting the configuration file

Fixes and improvements

• improve config file watcher to support Kubernetes configmap reloads; fix configuration reloading after deleting and recreating the configuration file (#130)
• support clients that don't specify track ID, like tvheadend (#155)

New minor features

• support hashing credentials with sha256

Fixes and improvements

• perform frame readings and writings in separate routines, in order to increase UDP throughput and avoid freezes caused by a single laggy reader (#125) (#162)
• forbid usage of publishUser, publishPass, publishIps when source is not 'record'

WARNING: this version is not compatible with Larix <= 1.0.71 for iOS / Android (on Android, the server wasn't compatible even before this) - the next Larix version should be compatible.

Fixes and improvements

• fix PAUSE with UDP (#157)
• fix crash when configuration is invalid (#160)
• support 'false' and 'true' values of 'encryption' parameter (#160)

New major features

• implement log levels; print requests and responses when log level is "debug" (#116)
• Support encryption with TLS (RTSPS) (#77)
• Support proxing RTSPS streams

Fixes and improvements

• switch to GitHub actions to test, lint and release
• add anti-brute force mechanism
• forbid runOnPublish when source is not record (#143)
• print a warn message when the configuration file is not found
• support transport headers with a single port (#136)
• fix crash when using publishIp or readIp (#142)
• support SDPs with spaces in origin (#127)
• add jitter and delay to RTCP receiver reports
• support SDPs with RS bandwidth (#136)
• increase maximum length of content of RTSP requests/responses to 128k (#136)
• fix shutdown of udp sockets during hot reloading
• fix hot reloading of configuration on macOS and with text editors that deletes and recreates the configuration file

Note: this release was published 24 hours ago and retired shortly after due to a freeze that occurred with a high number of clients - the issue has been solved and the fix has been included in this release.

New minor features

• support automatic protocol selection when proxying rtsp

Fixes and improvements

• allow repeated PAUSE requests (#107)
• support SDPs with empty unicast address in origin (#121)
• drastically improve the performance of the server when reading streams with both TCP and UDP
• add PAUSE to supported methods in OPTIONS response
• fix generation of RTCP receiver reports; add number of lost packets to RTCP receiver reports
• make RTMP sources emit RTCP packets
• allow calling PLAY twice (#128)
• increase udp kernel read buffer size to minimize packet losses (#127)

Fixes and improvements

• fix creation and deletion of paths during hot reloading
• use a new, more versatile, SDP unmarshaler
• support more SDPs including: SDPs with global attributes in random positions, VLC SDPs (#115), SDPs with MP2T in protocol (#120)
• support proxying streams with control paths that start with '?'
• support PAUSE method (#107)
• fix execution of external commands with quotes on Windows (#113)
• fix timeout when proxying streams from vlc rtsp server (#115)
• increase rtmp analyze timeout

New major features

• (breaking change) rename RTSP_SERVER_PATH environment variable into RTSP_PATH
• new environment variable RTSP_PORT
• add a "restart" parameter to all external commands, to restart commands if they exit before time
• add new parameters to better control the "on demand" feature: sourceOnDemandStartTimeout, sourceOnDemandCloseAfter, runOnDemandStartTimeout, runOnDemandCloseAfter (#62)
• add a "fallback" parameter to redirect readers to another url in case no one is publishing to the requested path (#104)

Fixes and improvements

• fix error when using environment variables with equal signs
• fix memory leak when receiving streams with tcp
• fix error when using vlc, authentication and slashes in paths
• fix memory leak caused by time.Timer
• fix error when using vlc, authentication and urls with query parameters
• switch to go 1.15
• require sourceRedirect if source is redirect
• support special characters in usernames and passwords
• change default write timeout to 10 seconds
• add configuration file to docker images
• support proxing servers that redirect to other urls

New major features

• support hot reloading of configuration (#64)
• support redirecting to another server (#92)

Fixes and improvements

• if UDP or TCP is disabled, allow most clients to switch protocol automatically (tested with ffmpeg, vlc, gstreamer)
• fix crash when using environment variables and config file is missing (#103)
• support unencoded symbols in urls (#100)
• fix client removal from path in case of errors during setup

New minor features

• allow overriding configuration with environment variables (#98) (#101)

Fixes and improvements

• fix killing of external commands on Windows (#97)
• support SDPs without timing and session attributes (#95)
• make sure all clients are closed before closing server
• fix timeout when pulling some cameras (aler9/gortsplib#8)

New major features

• support paths with regular expressions (#54) (#59)
• rename metrics, add metrics documentation, add rtsp_sources metrics (#61)
• support RTMP sources (#88)