Question / Help RTMP publish set up

[Nimble Streamer]

Hi,

Could you please point me to any documentation about setting up RTMP publishing from Open Broadcaster to media server?

I re-present development team of Nimble Streamer, a media server for streaming via HTTP-based protocols which takes media via several input methods (RTMP, MPEG-TS, MP4/MP3 files) as input and produces ABR HLS. Nimble accepts published RTMP stream at the moment. It must be published to designated IP and port with designated credentials (user + password).

My customer wants to publish from OBS to Nimble so my question is how can RTMP stream be published to IP and port with some login and password? E.g. for "live" application?

Thank you!

 

[dodgepong]

The RTMP settings are pretty straightforward via the "Custom Server" option in OBS. As for FMS authentication, there is unfortunately not a way to do that through the UI. You have to go to %appdata%\obs\profiles, then select the ini file of the profile you wish to use authentication with, then in the [Publish] section, add:
Username=(username)
Password=(password)

And that should enable authentication. Make sure OBS is not running while you do this, or it will overwrite your changes on exit.

 

[Nimble Streamer]

Thank you for your prompt reply!
Could you please specify proper doc link to "Custom Server" set up so I could pass it to my customer?

 

[dodgepong]

Settings > Broadcast Settings
Mode: Live Stream
Streaming Service: Custom

Then enter a Server and a Play Path/Stream Key into the appropriate fields.

I recommend downloading OBS to play with it yourself so you can effectively provide instruction to your customers.

 

[Nimble Streamer]

Thank you! I'll definitely install and try it in action with our streaming server.

 

[Nimble Streamer]

Hello,

I'd like to thank you for your help again and notify that Nimble Streamer now supports authentication via URL parameters since Open Broadcaster does not support FMLE authentication.

Please check this article describing the way to set up Open Browadcaster to publish to Nimble Streamer:
http://blog.wmspanel.com/2014/07/rtmp-publish-url-authentication.html

If anyone has any questions please contact us via support@wmspanel.com

Thank you.

 

[dodgepong]

I suppose that works...Usually stream keys aren't really used for passing usernames and password, but I guess if that's how you want to do it, then go for it.

 

[Nimble Streamer]

Thank you for sharing your concerns.

Actually we require adding those credentials into Play Path (or "application name" in terms of RTMP streaming), not Stream Key.

The article didn't state that clearly, so I've fixed the text, thank you for noticing.

 

[dodgepong]

For what it's worth, someone claimed they fixed FMS authentication in OBS, so when they submit a pull request, we'll see if it works again.

 

[Nimble Streamer]

Thanks for the update. That would be good.