## Summary
Removes the deprecated `hls_acodec` and `hls_vcodec` configuration
options and implements automatic codec detection for HLS streams, fixing
issues with video-only streams incorrectly showing audio information.
## Problem
- When streaming video-only content via RTMP, HLS output incorrectly
contained audio track information due to hardcoded default codec
settings
- The static `hls_acodec` and `hls_vcodec` configurations were
inflexible and caused compatibility issues with some players
- Users had to manually configure `hls_acodec an` to fix video-only
streams
## Solution
- **Remove deprecated configs**: Eliminates `hls_acodec` and
`hls_vcodec` configuration options entirely
- **Dynamic codec detection**: HLS muxer now automatically detects and
uses actual stream codecs in real-time
- **Improved defaults**: Changes from hardcoded AAC/H.264 defaults to
disabled state, letting actual stream content determine codec
information
- **Real-time codec switching**: Supports codec changes during streaming
with proper logging
## Changes
- Remove `get_hls_acodec()` and `get_hls_vcodec()` from SrsConfig
- Update HLS muxer to use `latest_acodec_`/`latest_vcodec_` for codec
detection
- Add codec detection logic in `write_audio()` and `write_video()`
methods
- Remove deprecated config options from all configuration files
- Add comprehensive unit tests for codec detection functionality
Fixes#4223
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Co-authored-by: Haibo Chen <495810242@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: OSSRS-AI <winlinam@gmail.com>
Currently, SRS only supports HLS with MPEG-TS format segment files, but
for LL-HLS and HEVC, it requires the fMP4 format. See #4327 for details.
Furthermore, fMP4 has a smaller overhead compared to TS, and fMP4 can be
used for DVR. In short, fMP4 is definitely the future segment format for
HLS.
Start SRS with the config file that enables HLS with fMP4:
```
./objs/srs -c conf/hls.mp4.conf
```
Publish stream by FFmpeg:
```
ffmpeg -re -i doc/source.flv -c copy -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/livestream
```
Play the stream by SRS player:
[http://localhost:8080/live/livestream.m3u8](http://localhost:8080/players/srs_player.html?stream=livestream.m3u8)
Finished by AI:
* [AI: Change init.mp4 to the same directory of
m3u8.](17621c8442)
* [AI: Fix the error handling
bug.](af3758a592)
* [AI: Fix Chrome stuttering
problem.](aaab60c314)
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Co-authored-by: winlin <winlinvip@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>
1. don't use static variable to store the result;
2. add more UT to handle the multi value and values with whitespaces;
related to #409216e569d823/trunk/src/app/srs_app_config.cpp (L71-L82)
`static SrsConfDirective* dir` removed, this static var here is to avoid
the memory leak, I add the `SrsConfDirective` instance to the `env_dirs`
directive container, which will destroy itself inside `SrsConfig`
destructor.
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Co-authored-by: winlin <winlinvip@gmail.com>
1. add on_connect & on_close directives to conf/full.conf;
2. let http_hooks env overwrite support multi values; e.g.
SRS_VHOST_HTTP_HOOKS_ON_CONNECT="http://127.0.0.1/api/connecthttp://localhost/api/connect"
related to
https://github.com/ossrs/srs/issues/1222#issuecomment-2170424703
Above comments said `http_hook` env may not works as expected, as I
found there are still has some issue in `http_hooks` env configuration,
but this PR may not target above problem.
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Co-authored-by: winlin <winlinvip@gmail.com>
1. The comment on the ratio configuration says it can affect the slice
duration, but there is no effect after configuring it.
2. The default hls_td_ratio is 1.5, and after setting it to 1, the
duration is still slightly more than 10 seconds.
3. Even if the GOP is an integer, like 1 second, the slice is still a
non-integer, like 0.998 seconds, which seems a bit unreliable.
4. In the duration of the TS in the m3u8 file, it is one frame less than
the duration of the slice.
5. Set hls_dispose to 120s to dispose HLS files when no stream.
6. Use docker.conf for docker.
Before this patch:
```
#EXTINF:10.983, no desc
livestream-0.ts?hls_ctx=3p095hq0
```
After this patch:
```
#EXTINF:10.000, no desc
livestream-0.ts?hls_ctx=3p095hq0
```
Note: If the fragment is set to 10 seconds, but the GOP size cannot be
divided by 10, such as not 1, 2, 5, or 10, then the duration of ts will
still be more than 10 seconds.
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Co-authored-by: john <hondaxiao@tencent.com>
SRS supports including another configuration in the include package.
When generating configurations, we can only generate the changed
configurations, while the unchanged configurations are in the fixed
files, for example:
```nginx
listen 1935;
include server.conf;
```
In `server.conf`, we can manage the changing configurations with the
program:
```nginx
http_api { enabled on; }
```
However, during system initialization, we often create an empty
`server.conf`, and the content is generated only after the program
starts, so `server.conf` might be an empty file. This also makes it
convenient to use a script to confirm the existence of this file:
```bash
touch server.conf
```
Currently, SRS does not support empty configurations and will report an
error. This PR is to solve this problem, making it more convenient to
use include.
`TRANS_BY_GPT4`
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Co-authored-by: Haibo Chen <495810242@qq.com>
In dockerfile, we can set the default RTC candidate to env:
```
ENV SRS_RTC_SERVER_CANDIDATE=\$CANDIDATE
CMD ["./objs/srs", "-e"]
```
When starts a docker container, user can setup the candidate by env:
```
docker run --rm -it --env CANDIDATE=1.2.3.4 ossrs/srs:5
```
We should parse the content of SRS_RTC_SERVER_CANDIDATE as env variable name and parse it again.
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Co-authored-by: chundonglinlin <chundonglinlin@163.com>
Co-authored-by: pengfei.ma <pengfei.ma@ctechm.com>
For some use scenario, the publisher is invited when player want to view the stream:
1. Publisher connect to system, but does not publish any stream to SRS yet.
2. Player connect to system and start to request the stream.
3. System notifies publisher to publish stream to SRS.
4. Player play the stream from SRS.
Please notice that `system` means your business system, not SRS.
This is what we called `on-demand-live-streaming`, so when the last player stop to view the stream, what happends?
1. System needs to notify publisher to stop publish.
2. Or, SRS disconnect the publisher when idle(the last player stops playing).
This PR is for the solution 2, so that the cleanup is very simple, your system does not need to notify publisher to stop publish, because SRS has already disconnected the publihser.
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Co-authored-by: winlin <winlin@vip.126.com>
Co-authored-by: chundonglinlin <chundonglinlin@163.com>
* FLV: Support set default has_av and disable guessing. v5.0.110
1. Support config default has_audio and has_video.
2. Support disable guessing has_audio or has_video.
* FLV: Reset to false if start to guess has_av.
* FLV: Add regression test for FLV header av metadata.
1. Ignore audo or video packets if FLV header disable it.
2. Run: Add regression test config and run for IDEA.
3. Test: Refine regression test to allow no audio/video for FLV
4. Config: Whether drop packet if not match header.
* Add utc time utility
* Fix calculate duration in fmp4
* Refine dash code, use segment template timeline
* Shrink m4s file and cleanup
* Support play by dash.js
* Use SegmentTemplate timeline mode with $Number$
Co-authored-by: winlin <winlin@vip.126.com>
* Exporter: metrics support cpu gauge.
* Exporter: metrics support memory and uname..
* Exporter: Ignore error when uname fail.
Co-authored-by: winlin <winlin@vip.126.com>
1. Support Java/log4j log level text.
2. Support configuring by `--log-new-level=on` which is enabled by default.
3. Support `--log-new-level=off` to use SRS 4.0 log level for compatibility.
01. Support GB config as StreamCaster.
02. Support disable GB by --gb28181=off.
03. Add utests for SIP examples.
04. Wireshark plugin to decode TCP/9000 as rtp.rfc4571
05. Support MPEGPS program stream codec.
06. Add utest for PS stream codec.
07. Decode MPEGPS packet stream.
08. Carry RTP and PS packet as helper in PS message.
09. Support recover from error mode.
10. Support process by a pack of PS/TS messages.
11. Add statistic for recovered and msgs dropped.
12. Recover from err position fastly.
13. Define state machine for GB session.
14. Bind context to GB session.
15. Re-invite when media disconnected.
16. Update GitHub actions with GB28181.
17. Support parse CANDIDATE by env or pip.
18. Support mux GB28181 to RTMP.
19. Support regression test by srs-bench.
* Forward: add backend config and demo server for dynamic create forwarder to other server.(#1342)
* Forward: if call forward backend failed, then return directly.
* Forward: add API description and change return value format.
* Forward: add backend conf file and wrapper function for backend service.
* Forward: add backend comment in full.conf and update forward.backend.conf.
* Forward: rename backend param and add comment tips.
* Support include import configuration
* Remove support for regular rules
* Remove support for regular rules
* Fix configuration file parsing bug
* Added utest tests for include functionality
* Added utest tests for include functionality
* Modify the UTest function
* optimized code
* Config: Refine parse error with state
* Config: Reorder functions
* Config: Rename parsing type to context
* Config: Refine args for include
* Config: Add utests for include
* Config: Refine code, parsing recursively.
* Config: Change the mock from file to buffer
* Config: Mock buffer in config
* Config: Refine code
* Add utests for include
* Added utest for include
Co-authored-by: pengfei.ma <pengfei.ma@ngaa.com.cn>
Co-authored-by: winlin <winlin@vip.126.com>
