I have to make a semi-live-stream. I used Nginx-rtmp module and then pushed content to it via ffmpeg using:
ffmpeg -re -i content.mp4 -r 25 -f fvl "rtmp://rtmp.server.here"
The stream runs fine when I open it in VLC from "rtmp://rtmp.server.here"
But I also have to make iPhone and Android apps that play these streams. And that's the problem, the stream doesn't work on Android and iPhone.
If I use Wowza streaming cloud and stream to Wowza cloud instead of my own nginx-rtmp server then the same app written for Android & iPhone can playback the stream just fine.
Now either nginx-rtmp is not working right, or what else? I've also tried crtmpserver and the same thing happens.
What I want to acheive: I have to develop a system where we can upstream a TV-Channel (have rights for it) to a server and then make a website, android app & iPhone app so consumers can watch the live channel.
The uploading part I have a clue of, probably a TV tuner card and Open Broadcast Software to stream it to server. But the Live playback is new to me.
UPDATE: I also used ffprobe and here's the output. (See the last line)
munir@munir-HP-ProBook-450-G2:~$ ffprobe rtmp://rtmp.server.here
ffprobe version 2.6.2 Copyright (c) 2007-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=amrwb --enable-libpulse --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr --enable-libxvid --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvidstab
libavutil 54. 20.100 / 54. 20.100
libavcodec 56. 26.100 / 56. 26.100
libavformat 56. 25.101 / 56. 25.101
libavdevice 56. 4.100 / 56. 4.100
libavfilter 5. 11.102 / 5. 11.102
libavresample 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libswscale 3. 1.101 / 3. 1.101
libswresample 1. 1.100 / 1. 1.100
libpostproc 53. 3.100 / 53. 3.100
[flv @ 0x267cc60] Stream discovered after head already parsed
Last message repeated 1 times
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://stage.funworldpk.com/live':
Metadata:
Server : NGINX RTMP (github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module)
displayWidth : 320
displayHeight : 240
fps : 20
profile :
level :
Duration: 00:00:00.00, start: 288.763000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 20 fps, 20 tbr, 1k tbn, 40 tbc
Stream #0:1: Data: none
Stream #0:2: Audio: aac (LC), 22050 Hz, stereo, fltp
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 1
Update 2: I got my stream working by using Licensed copy of Wowza streaming server. Everything works now. But obviously this will not be an option for everyone that's why I am not posting it as an answer.