12.10. re-stream to RTMP

SRTMiniServer provides the capability to not only receive but also retransmit incoming SRT streams using the more common RTMP protocol.

This functionality is especially useful when your source is transmitting content with multiple audio tracks,

for example, a sporting event with commentary in different languages – English, German, Spanish, and so on.

Let's say you receive a football match broadcast from your media provider using the SRT protocol.

This stream contains three audio tracks: English, German, and Spanish. Your task is to re-broadcast this match to your YouTube channel or to another platform that works with RTMP.

 

When to use it: when you need to do canonical re-streaming - give the same video quality (without changes) to several sites and possibly re-configure audio channels.

For this purpose it is better to use RE-Stream Addon.

 

When to use: when you need to convert the original signal. For example, make 4K only FullHD or change frame rate. Or add an overlay for each direction.
In this case SRTMiniServer, combined with the SDIOutAddon module, makes it easy to solve this problem.
SDIOutAddon not only provides retransmission over the RTMP protocol but also allows you to select two audio channels  from those available in the SRT stream (this is a limitation of the RTMP protocol) for your broadcast.

In addition, you can overlay the video with a dynamic overlay – add a logo, ticker, or other information.

Detailed instructions for setting up RTMP restreaming can be found in this section