for issue #4418, #4151, #4076 .DVR Missing First Few Seconds of
Audio/Video
### Root Cause
When recording WebRTC streams to FLV files using DVR, the first 4-6
seconds of audio/video are missing. This occurs because:
1. **Packets are discarded before A/V sync is available**: The
RTC-to-RTMP conversion pipeline actively discards all RTP packets when
avsync_time <= 0.
2. **Original algorithm requires 2 RTCP SR packets**: The previous
implementation needed to receive two RTCP Sender Report (SR) packets
before it could calculate the rate for audio/video synchronization
timestamp conversion.
3. **Delay causes packet loss**: Since RTCP SR packets typically arrive
every 2-3 seconds, waiting for 2 SRs means 4-6 seconds of packets are
discarded before A/V sync becomes available.
4. **Audio SR arrives slower than video SR**: As reported in the issue,
video RTCP SR packets arrive much faster than audio SR packets. This
asymmetry causes audio packets to be discarded for a longer period,
resulting in the audio loss observed in DVR recordings.
### Solution
1. **Initialize rate from SDP**: Use the sample rate from SDP (Session
Description Protocol) to calculate the initial rate immediately when the
track is created.
Audio (Opus): 48000 Hz → rate = 48 (RTP units per millisecond)
Video (H.264/H.265): 90000 Hz → rate = 90 (RTP units per millisecond)
2. **Enable immediate A/V sync:** With the SDP rate available,
cal_avsync_time() can calculate valid timestamps from the very first RTP
packet, eliminating packet loss.
3. **Smooth transition to precise rate**: After receiving the 2nd RTCP
SR, update to the precisely calculated rate based on actual RTP/NTP
timestamp mapping.
## Configuration
Added new configuration option `init_rate_from_sdp` in the RTC vhost
section:
```nginx
vhost rtc.vhost.srs.com {
rtc {
# Whether initialize RTP rate from SDP sample rate for immediate A/V sync.
# When enabled, the RTP rate (units per millisecond) is initialized from the SDP
# sample rate (e.g., 90 for video 90kHz, 48 for audio 48kHz) before receiving
# 2 RTCP SR packets. This allows immediate audio/video synchronization.
# The rate will be updated to a more precise value after receiving the 2nd SR.
# Overwrite by env SRS_VHOST_RTC_INIT_RATE_FROM_SDP for all vhosts.
# Default: off
init_rate_from_sdp off;
}
}
```
**⚠️ Important Note**: This config defaults to **off** because:
- ✅ When **enabled**: Fixes the audio loss problem (no missing first 4-6
seconds)
- ❌ When **enabled**: VLC on macOS cannot play the video properly
- ✅ Other platforms work fine (Windows, Linux)
- ✅ FFplay works fine on all platforms
Users experiencing audio loss in DVR recordings can enable this option
if they don't need VLC macOS compatibility. We're investigating the VLC
macOS issue to make this feature safe to enable by default in the
future.
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Co-authored-by: winlin <winlinvip@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
This PR refactors the stream bridge architecture in SRS to improve code
organization, type safety, and maintainability by replacing the generic
ISrsStreamBridge interface with protocol-specific bridge classes and
target interfaces.
1. New Target Interface Architecture:
- Introduces ISrsFrameTarget for AV frame consumers (RTMP sources)
- Introduces ISrsRtpTarget for RTP packet consumers (RTC sources)
- Introduces ISrsSrtTarget for SRT packet consumers (SRT sources)
2. Protocol-Specific Bridge Classes:
- SrsRtmpBridge: Converts RTMP frames to RTC/RTSP protocols
- SrsSrtBridge: Converts SRT packets to RTMP/RTC protocols
- SrsRtcBridge: Converts RTC packets to RTMP protocol
3. Simplified Bridge Management:
- Removes the generic SrsCompositeBridge chain pattern
- Each source type now uses its appropriate bridge type directly
With this improvement, you are able to implement very complex bridge and
protocol converting, for example, you can bridge RTMP to RTC with opus
audio when you support enhanced RTMP with opus.
Another plan is to support bridging RTC to RTSP, directly without
converting RTP to media frame packet, but directly deliver RTP packet
from RTC source to RTSP source.
---------
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
This PR introduces a major refactoring to replace `SrsSharedPtrMessage`
with `SrsMediaPacket` throughout the SRS codebase, providing a more
unified and cleaner approach to media packet handling.
---------
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
This PR fixes a critical race condition in SRS source managers where
multiple coroutines could create duplicate sources for the same stream.
- **Atomic source creation**: Source lookup, creation, and pool
insertion now happen atomically within lock scope
- **Consistent interface**: Standardize on `ISrsRequest*` interface
throughout codebase
- **Handler simplification**: Remove `ISrsLiveSourceHandler*` parameter,
obtain from global server instance
---------
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
This PR makes WebRTC a core feature of SRS and enforces C++98
compatibility by:
1. Always Enable WebRTC Support
- Remove `--rtc=on|off` configuration option - WebRTC is now always
enabled
- Eliminate all `#ifdef SRS_RTC` conditional compilation blocks
- Include WebRTC-related modules (RTC, SRTP, DTLS) in all builds
- Update build scripts to always link WebRTC dependencies
2. Enforce C++98 Compatibility
- Remove `--cxx11=on|off` and `--cxx14=on|off` configuration options
- Force `SRS_CXX11=NO` and `SRS_CXX14=NO` in build system
- Move these options to deprecated section with warnings
- Ensure codebase maintains C++98 standard compatibility
3. Remove Windows/Cygwin Support
- Remove all Windows and Cygwin64 conditional compilation blocks (#ifdef
_WIN32, #ifdef CYGWIN64)
- Delete Cygwin64 build configurations from build scripts (
auto/options.sh, auto/depends.sh, configure)
- Remove Cygwin64 assembly files and State Threads platform support (
md_cygwin64.S)
- Eliminate Windows-specific GitHub Actions workflows and CI/CD jobs
- Remove NSIS packaging files and Windows installer generation
- Delete Windows documentation and update feature lists to mark support
as removed in v7.0
- Simplify OS detection to only support Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS)
4. Code Cleanup
- Remove conditional WebRTC code blocks throughout the codebase
- Simplify build configuration by removing WebRTC-related conditionals
- Update constructor delegation patterns to be C++98 compatible
- Fix vector initialization to use C++98 syntax
- Eliminate Windows-specific implementations for file operations, time
handling, and networking
- Unified platform handling with consistent POSIX API usage
---------
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
## Introduce
This PR adds support for viewing streams via the RTSP protocol. Note
that it only supports viewing streams, not publishing streams via RTSP.
Currently, only publishing via RTMP is supported, which is then
converted to RTSP. Further work is needed to support publishing RTC/SRT
streams and converting them to RTSP.
## Usage
Build and run SRS with RTSP support:
```
cd srs/trunk && ./configure --rtsp=on && make -j16
./objs/srs -c conf/rtsp.conf
```
Push stream via RTMP by FFmpeg:
```
ffmpeg -re -i doc/source.flv -c copy -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/livestream
```
View the stream via RTSP protocol, try UDP first, then use TCP:
```
ffplay -i rtsp://localhost:8554/live/livestream
```
Or specify the transport protocol with TCP:
```
ffplay -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://localhost:8554/live/livestream
```
## Unit Test
Run utest for RTSP:
```
./configure --utest=on & make utest -j16
./objs/srs_utest
```
## Regression Test
You need to start SRS for regression testing.
```
./objs/srs -c conf/regression-test-for-clion.conf
```
Then run regression tests for RTSP.
```
cd srs/trunk/3rdparty/srs-bench
go test ./srs -mod=vendor -v -count=1 -run=TestRtmpPublish_RtspPlay
```
## Blackbox Test
For blackbox testing, SRS will be started by utest, so there is no need
to start SRS manually.
```
cd srs/trunk/3rdparty/srs-bench
go test ./blackbox -mod=vendor -v -count=1 -run=TestFast_RtmpPublish_RtspPlay_Basic
```
## UDP Transport
As UDP requires port allocation, this PR doesn't support delivering
media stream via UDP transport, so it will fail if you try to use UDP as
transport:
```
ffplay -rtsp_transport udp -i rtsp://localhost:8554/live/livestream
[rtsp @ 0x7fbc99a14880] method SETUP failed: 461 Unsupported Transport
rtsp://localhost:8554/live/livestream: Protocol not supported
[2025-07-05 21:30:52.738][WARN][14916][7d7gf623][35] RTSP: setup failed: code=2057
(RtspTransportNotSupported) : UDP transport not supported, only TCP/interleaved mode is supported
```
There are no plans to support UDP transport for RTSP. In the real world,
UDP is rarely used; the vast majority of RTSP traffic uses TCP.
## Play Before Publish
RTSP supports audio with AAC and OPUS codecs, which is significantly
different from RTMP or WebRTC.
RTSP uses commands to exchange SDP and specify the audio track to play,
unlike WHEP or HTTP-FLV, which use the query string of the URL. RTSP
depends on the player’s behavior, making it very difficult to use and
describe.
Considering the feature that allows playing the stream before publishing
it, it requires generating some default parameters in the SDP. For OPUS,
the sample rate is 48 kHz with 2 channels, while AAC is more complex,
especially regarding the sample rate, which may be 44.1 kHz, 32 kHz, or
48 kHz.
Therefore, for RTSP, we cannot support play-then-publish. Instead, there
must already be a stream when playing it, so that the audio codec is
determined.
## Opus Codec
No Opus codec support for RTSP, because for RTC2RTSP, it always converts
RTC to RTMP frames, then converts them to RTSP packets. Therefore, the
audio codec is always AAC after converting RTC to RTMP.
This means the bridge architecture needs some changes. We need a new
bridge that binds to the target protocol. For example, RTC2RTMP converts
the audio codec, but RTC2RTSP keeps the original audio codec.
Furthermore, the RTC2RTMP bridge should also support bypassing the Opus
codec if we use enhanced-RTMP, which supports the Opus audio codec. I
think it should be configurable to either transcode or bypass the audio
codec. However, this is not relevant to RTSP.
## AI Contributor
Below commits are contributed by AI:
* [AI: Remove support for media transport via
UDP.](755686229f)
* [AI: Add crutial logs for each RTSP
stage.](9c8cbe7bde)
* [AI: Support AAC doec for
RTSP.](7d7cc12bae)
* [AI: Add option --rtsp for
RTSP.](f67414d9ee)
* [AI: Extract SrsRtpVideoBuilder for RTC and
RTSP.](562e76b904)
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Co-authored-by: Jacob Su <suzp1984@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: winlin <winlinvip@gmail.com>
This PR refactors the RTMP to RTC bridge to support multiple video
tracks by implementing lazy initialization of audio and video tracks.
Instead of pre-determining track parameters during bridge construction,
tracks are now initialized dynamically when the first packet of each
type is received, allowing proper codec detection and track
configuration for dual video track scenarios.
Failed to view WHEP with HEVC before publishing RTMP, because the
default codec is AVC and will not be updated until the stream is
published. This enables better handling of streams with multiple video
tracks in RTMP to WebRTC bridging scenarios. Now, you are able to:
1. View WHEP with HEVC: Play with WebRTC:
http://localhost:8080/players/whep.html?schema=http&&codec=hevc
2. Then publish by RTMP: `ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -re -i doc/source.flv
-c:v libx265 -profile:v main -preset fast -b:v 2000k -maxrate 2000k
-bufsize 2000k -bf 0 -c:a aac -b:a 48k -ar 44100 -ac 2 -f flv
rtmp://localhost/live/livestream`
Or publish RTMP with HEVC, then view by WHEP.
Note that if the codecs do not match, the error log will display RTC:
`Drop for ssrc xxxxxx not found`. For example, this can occur if you
publish RTMP with HEVC while viewing the stream with AVC.
