How do I connect my libobs app to httpd?

[Steve Baker]

OK - so after considerable digging around in the source code, I have an application that renders something into an OpenGL window in a libobs draw callback without using the OBS GUI stuff.

How do I get an H264 video stream that I can output via (say) Apache?

 

[Palana]

The two easiest solutions are probably: FFmpeg output plugin set to output hls (output to a directory that's served by Apache, then point your hls compatible video player to the playlist), or replace Apache with nginx + rtmp plugin (that one can also output hls).

If you have more control over your video consumers/players you can probably output ts/m2ts/similar files to a directory served by Apache and open that; experiments show that this is rather unreliable though (tested with VLC)

 

[Steve Baker]

Thanks...I'll probably want to stick with Apache because there is other HTML content on the server - so it sounds like the FFmpeg plugin is the way to go.

Since I'm using raw libobs - what is the necessary API to hook up the plugin and make it active?