livestream

A kubernetes based live streaming infrastructure.

Architetcure.

Features

• An Ngnix based ingest frontend. Used the nginx-rtmp module for RTMP ingest.
• An ffmpeg based mutli bitrate encoder. The encoding can be either CPU or GPU based.
• Support DASH/HLS for playback.
• A .NET CORE deployment service that deploys channels on demand.
• An nginx egress to stream the DASH/HLS segments and manifest.
• Simple Shaka player based player for testing the streaming.
• Low latency streaming with DASH low latency.

Future enhancements.

• A simple REST API to manage channels.
• Authentication support (Both for ingest and playback)
• A well defined channel interface so multiple types of chanels can be implemented (gstreamer/ffmpeg)
• Move the channel infrastrcuture to Rust for efficiency.
• Support for Apple LL-HLS
• Support for configurable presets for encoding instead of hardcoded set of layers.
• Support for archiving to cloud storage
• DASH/SRT ingest
• Support for AI and close captioning.