How to play a RTMP stream in VLC

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I'm trying to get a RTMP stream to play on VLC and the URL is in this format:
rtmp://76.10.10.240/liverepeater/mp4:name.mp4

I'm able to record the stream with CooJah but I only want to watch it via VLC. Any ideas?

Best Answer

You can play RTMP in VLC with the help of RTMPDump .

rtmpdump -v -r "rtmp://ip-address/app-name/streamname" -o - | "vlc" -

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How to download stream videos with rtmp protocol? From Harvard Extension, more specifically

Use RtmpSrv

rtmpdump -r rtmp://flash.dce.harvard.edu/bounce -C B:0 -C Z: \
-C S:/2012/02/22872/L01/22872-20120124-L01-1-h264-av1248-16x9-852x480.mp4 \
-C S:BounceAPI3.0 -C N:0.000000 -C S:mp4 \
-y mp4:2012/02/22872/L01/22872-20120124-L01-1-h264-av1248-16x9-852x480.mp4 \
-o a.flv
RTMPDump v2.4-84-gdd57cd0
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
INFO: Connected...
Starting download at: 0.000 kB
[...]
3322.127 kB / 22.03 sec (0.3%)

Edit: please do not ask me about this answer anymore. I was booted from the RTMP community many years ago and dont wish to revisit that. This answer only exist for historical reason and cannot be deleted.

Stream mp4 video via ffmpeg and rtmp using red5

Try this command. This is the command i usually use to stream a video file as a live stream

ffmpeg -re -i localFile.mp4 -c copy -f flv rtmp://server/live/streamName

The -re option tells FFmpeg to read the input file in realtime and not in the standard as-fast-as-possible manner. With -c copy (alias -acodec copy -vcodec copy ) I’m telling FFmpeg to copy the essences of the input file without transcoding, then to package them in an FLV container (-f flv) and send the final bitstream to an rtmp destination (rtmp://server/live/streamName).

The JWplayer source is as follows

<html>
<head><title>TEST PLAYER</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jwplayer.js"></script>
<div id="myElement">Loading the player...</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("myElement").setup({
file: "rtmp://[ip-address]/live/streamname",
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

Make sure the jwplayer.js and player.swf are in the correct locations.

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