[REQUEST] - Dynamic Stream Title (Based on input file)

[tokenwizard]

[REQUEST] - Dynamic Stream Title (Based on input file)

[gabek]

There's not really a concept of "file names". I'm sure there could be a way to embed the file name into the RTMP metadata, but Owncast wouldn't do anything with that.

The solution would be to use the Owncast API to set the stream title each time you change files on the broadcasting side. How you'd detect the file change is something you'd need to figure out with ffmpeg, however.

Here's the API you'd want to use. It requires an access token. https://owncast.online/api/latest/#tag/Integrations/paths/~1api~1integrations~1streamtitle/post

Owncast

[tokenwizard]

Ok, thanks for that. I think I can make that work.
Looking at the API docs, it looks like I need this application/json format and the "value" key. I've tried POSTing this to my server but I get "unauthorized" response.

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <<access token>>" -d '{"value": "Testing Stream Title!"}' http://192.168.12.50:8080/api/integrations/streamtitle

UPDATE: I figured it out. I had to create an access token that had admin access. All good now. Thanks!

[tokenwizard]

For anyone who might stumble on this an want to know my solution. I am just using a for loop to first set the Stream Title to the filename and then send the file via ffmpeg. This will cycle through each mkv file in the current folder and stream it in turn, first setting the Stream Title.

#!/bin/bash
# set the file extension of your media
file_ext='mkv'

# set your server IP and Port
server_ip=<your_ip>
server_port=<your_port>
rtmp_port=<your_rtmp_port>

# set your stream key
stream_key='<your_stream_key>'

# iterate through each media file and replace spaces with underscores for the Stream Title (NOTE: change <your_access_token> to yours that you created)
for file in *.${file_ext}; do 
        title=$(echo $file | tr ' ' '_'); 
        curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_access_token>" -d '{"value": "'$title'"}' http://${server_ip}:${server_port}/api/integrations/streamtitle; ffmpeg -re -i "$file" -c:v copy -c:a copy -f flv rtmp://${server_ip}:${rtmp_port}/live/"$stream_key";
done

[gabek]

Very cool!