skdhruv/conti

minimalistic playout server

Conti

FFMpeg based playout server

About the project

Conti is a simple linear video playout server. It enables you to broadcast your video files with minimal configuration and hardware requirements.

With a little help of our other tools, Conti can run regional info channels, loby TVs, you can use in your hotel, restaurant or just run a pirate-punk-whatever channel for fun as we do.

It is also possible to switch to live sources (capture card, webcam or another IP video stream).

Quick start

Install ffmpeg on a Linux box. If you are using Debian based distribution, you may use install.ffmpeg.sh script from our installers repository.

Install nxtools using pip3 install nxtools

Clone this repository and tweak conti.py script to point to your data location (directory with your video files)

By default, Conti streams in RTP over multicast to rtp://224.0.0.1:2000, but you can change the destination as well as the encoding profile(s).

Start ./conti.py and tune your station: Start VLC on any machine in your network, hit ctrl+n and enter rtp://@224.0.0.1:2000.

If you wish, you can use RTMP output to stream - for example - to YouTube Live or NGINX with RTMP module, create HLS or MPEG DASH segments and manifest and run your own web TV.

Do you want more?

Feel free to tweak the sample script to meet your needs. You can modify the get_next method to play different media in different part of the day. You can apply audio and video filters both to each source clip and output.

Limitations

ContiSource is work in progress... more features coming soon.

Real-time graphics will be limited to elements supported by ffmpeg filters. You will be able to burn-in station logo, clock and simple news ticker though.