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- Hardware Platform (GPU model and numbers): Brev, NVIDIA L40s (48Gib)
- System Memory
- Ubuntu Version
- NVIDIA GPU Driver Version (valid for GPU only)
- Issue Type( questions, new requirements, bugs):
- Unable to access localhost rtsp ip address
- How to reproduce the issue ? (This is for bugs. Including the command line used and other details for reproducing)
- Replicate the file structure and files from the section below
Supporting files to replicate- make sure to include a video in the folder
videos-to-stream
- make sure to include a video in the folder
- Run the following docker commands
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docker compose down --remove-orphans docker compose pull docker compose up -
or if the command doesn’t exist
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docker-compose down --remove-orphans docker-compose pull docker-compose up
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- start the container up, paste the URL
rtsp://localhost:8554/live/mystream-
docker compose up 16:48:57 [+] Running 4/4 ✔ Network rtsp-stream_default Created 0.0s ✔ Container mediamtx Created 0.0s ✔ Container video-streamer Created 0.0s ! streamer The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested 0.0s Attaching to mediamtx, video-streamer mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF MediaMTX v1.14.0 mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF configuration loaded from /mediamtx.yml mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF [RTSP] listener opened on :8554 (TCP) mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF [RTMP] listener opened on :1935 mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF [HLS] listener opened on :8888 mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF [WebRTC] listener opened on :8889 (HTTP), :8189 (ICE/UDP) mediamtx | 2025/08/18 21:49:01 INF [SRT] listener opened on :8890 (UDP) video-streamer | [streamer] publishing to rtmp://mediamtx:1935/live/mystream video-streamer | video-streamer | ================= STREAM ENDPOINTS ================= video-streamer | Publish (internal, streamer -> MediaMTX): video-streamer | rtmp://mediamtx:1935/live/mystream video-streamer | video-streamer | View (from this host): video-streamer | RTSP (TCP): rtsp://localhost:8554/live/mystream video-streamer | HLS: http://localhost:8888/live/mystream video-streamer | video-streamer | ffplay (RTSP over TCP): video-streamer | ffplay -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://localhost:8554/live/mystream video-streamer | ==================================================== video-streamer |- The url can be found from the line
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video-streamer | View (from this host): video-streamer | RTSP (TCP): rtsp://localhost:8554/live/mystream
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- The url can be found from the line
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- Replicate the file structure and files from the section below
- Requirement details (This is for new requirement. Including the logs for the pods, the description for the pods)
- We get the following error (will upload screenshot in follow up post)
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ERROR: Could not connect to the RTSP URL or there is no video stream from the RTSP URL
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- We get the following error (will upload screenshot in follow up post)
Supporting files to replicate
file structure
.
├── docker-compose.yml
├── mediamtx.yml
├── stream.sh
└── videos-to-stream
└── Insert-Your-Video-To-Stream.mp4
docker-compose.yml
services:
mediamtx:
image: bluenviron/mediamtx:latest
container_name: mediamtx
environment:
MTX_RTSPTRANSPORTS: tcp # RTSP over TCP (Docker Desktop/macOS friendly)
volumes:
- ./mediamtx.yml:/mediamtx.yml:ro # file sits at /mediamtx.yml
# NOTE: no "command": the image entrypoint is already "mediamtx",
# and it will pick up /mediamtx.yml automatically as the default conf
ports:
- "8554:8554/tcp" # RTSP
- "1935:1935/tcp" # RTMP (publisher input)
- "8888:8888/tcp" # HLS (optional)
restart: unless-stopped
streamer:
image: ghcr.io/jrottenberg/ffmpeg:6.1-alpine # this one is multi-arch (arm64 OK)
container_name: video-streamer
depends_on:
- mediamtx
environment:
RTMP_URL: rtmp://mediamtx:1935/live
STREAM_KEY: mystream
# COPY_MODE: "true" # uncomment to try stream-copy (no re-encode)
volumes:
- ./videos-to-stream:/videos:ro
- ./stream.sh:/stream.sh:ro
entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "/stream.sh"]
restart: unless-stopped
stream.sh
#!/bin/sh
set -eu
# Inputs / defaults
APP="${APP:-live}"
KEY="${STREAM_KEY:-mystream}"
PUBLIC_HOST="${PUBLIC_HOST:-localhost}"
RTSP_PORT="${RTSP_PORT:-8554}"
HLS_PORT="${HLS_PORT:-8888}"
RTMP_PORT="${RTMP_PORT:-1935}"
# Internal publish URL (inside Docker network)
SERVER="${RTMP_URL:-rtmp://mediamtx:${RTMP_PORT}/${APP}}"
print_urls() {
echo ""
echo "================= STREAM ENDPOINTS ================="
echo "Publish (internal, streamer -> MediaMTX):"
echo " rtmp://mediamtx:${RTMP_PORT}/${APP}/${KEY}"
echo ""
echo "View (from this host):"
echo " RTSP (TCP): rtsp://${PUBLIC_HOST}:${RTSP_PORT}/${APP}/${KEY}"
echo " HLS: http://${PUBLIC_HOST}:${HLS_PORT}/${APP}/${KEY}"
echo ""
echo "ffplay (RTSP over TCP):"
echo " ffplay -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://${PUBLIC_HOST}:${RTSP_PORT}/${APP}/${KEY}"
echo "===================================================="
echo ""
}
echo "[streamer] publishing to ${SERVER}/${KEY}"
print_urls
# tiny wait so mediamtx can start
sleep 2
stream_file() {
f="$1"
echo "[streamer] streaming: $f"
if [ "${COPY_MODE:-false}" = "true" ]; then
# Try copy; fallback to transcode if incompatible
ffmpeg -nostdin -hide_banner -loglevel warning -re -i "$f" \
-c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 48000 -ac 2 -b:a 160k \
-f flv "${SERVER}/${KEY}" \
|| ffmpeg -nostdin -hide_banner -loglevel warning -re -i "$f" \
-c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -tune zerolatency -pix_fmt yuv420p \
-c:a aac -ar 48000 -ac 2 -b:a 160k \
-f flv "${SERVER}/${KEY}"
else
# Always (light) transcode to H.264/AAC
ffmpeg -nostdin -hide_banner -loglevel warning -re -i "$f" \
-c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -tune zerolatency -pix_fmt yuv420p \
-c:a aac -ar 48000 -ac 2 -b:a 160k \
-f flv "${SERVER}/${KEY}"
fi
}
# Loop through the folder forever
while true; do
found=false
for f in /videos/*; do
[ -f "$f" ] || continue
found=true
stream_file "$f"
done
if [ "$found" = false ]; then
echo "[streamer] no files found in /videos; add files to ./videos-to-stream/"
sleep 5
else
echo "[streamer] loop complete; starting over..."
fi
done
mediamtx.yml
paths:
all:
source: publisher
