[rtmpdump] streams

[Howard Chu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> compn wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:27:24 +0100 (CET), hyc wrote:
>>> Author: hyc
>>> Date: Thu Dec 17 03:27:24 2009
>>> New Revision: 83
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> Convert streams to C
>>
>> is there a howto or readme for what streams program does?
>
> Heh, good question. I've never used it.
>
> Basically it is an HTTP server that will retrieve RTMP streams and copy their
> data to an HTTP client. From looking at the code I see that you can start it
> with the usual rtmpdump options for specifying an rtmp URL, but you can also
> request other sources by providing appropriate parameters in the HTTP Get
> request. I haven't looked closely enough at the code to see how an HTTP client
> should construct its requests yet.

OK, it's pretty simple. Just connect and send an HTTP request "GET /". If you 
want to specify alternate parameters, send them along in urlencoded fashion:

GET /?r=rtmp:%2f%2ffoobar%2fblah&y=somefile

(Same as -r rtmp://foobar/blah -y somefile)

-- hyc