Ubuntu 12.04
nginx 1.2.4
avconv -version
avconv version 0.8.10-4:0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Feb 6 2014 20:56:59 with gcc 4.6.3
avconv 0.8.10-4:0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
libavutil 51. 22. 2 / 51. 22. 2
libavcodec 53. 35. 0 / 53. 35. 0
libavformat 53. 21. 1 / 53. 21. 1
libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
libavfilter 2. 15. 0 / 2. 15. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libpostproc 52. 0. 0 / 52. 0. 0
I'm using avconv and nginx to create an HLS stream but right now my latency is regularly well over 30 seconds. After much reading I am aware that HLS has built in latency and that 10s is expected and even preferred but 30s seems quite extreme.
I've seen a lot of discussion on the nginx-rtmp google group, this thread in particular had a lot of suggestions. I have attempted to reduce solve my issue by reducing the hls_fragment
and the hls_playlist_length
but they haven't had a significant effect.
nginx.conf:
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
error_log logs/error.log debug;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 8888;
server_name localhost;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' "*";
location /hls {
types {
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
video/mp2t ts;
}
root /tmp;
}
# rtmp stat
location /stat {
rtmp_stat all;
rtmp_stat_stylesheet stat.xsl;
}
location /stat.xsl {
# you can move stat.xsl to a different location
root /usr/build/nginx-rtmp-module;
}
# rtmp control
location /control {
rtmp_control all;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
}
rtmp {
server {
listen 1935;
ping 30s;
notify_method get;
application myapp {
live on;
hls on;
hls_path /tmp/hls;
hls_base_url http://x.x.x.x:8888/hls/;
hls_sync 2ms;
hls_fragment 2s;
#hls_variant _low BANDWIDTH=160000;
#hls_variant _mid BANDWIDTH=320000;
#hls_variant _hi BANDWIDTH=640000;
}
}
}
avconv command:
avconv -r 30 -y -f image2pipe -codec:v mjpeg -i - -f flv -codec:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -an -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/myapp/mystream
Edit
I know that it's not avconv that is the bottleneck because I am also producing an RTMP stream using nginx. This RTMP stream has a very small delay (couple of seconds).
I once had the same problem. I added two parameters in nginx.conf then the latency was cut to 10s even less. Here is my conf:
application hls {
hls_playlist_length 4s;
hls_fragment 1s
}
However, I have to say 10s seems to be our limitation. Any better solutions?