For stability, we recommend sticking with RTMP.

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RTMP

When creating a Pipe room using the RTMP protocol, you’ll get a response back from our API with something similar to the following:

{
  "id": "pipe_room_MzI1MjkzODg0MjgzNTM1NDg",
  "name": "My pipe room",
  "ingest_protocol": "rtmp",
  "delivery_protocols": ["llhls"],
  "join_token": "prjt_c19hN2MyNTExMWM4NWU4NjlhOGY0NWY0NjJlYTUzYjNlNV8zMjMyNTcwOTgxODk1Mzc3NA",
  "ingest_region": "us-east-1",
  "created_at": "2022-07-15T04:50:49.803Z",
  "ingest_endpoint": "rtmp://cinnamon-iad1-prd.origin.hopvideo.net/v.vanilla/psk_c18yZTU3NDk2ODAxOTMwMTVhZDA2YzE5OGVkMDBmYTQ3Nl8zMjMyNTcwOTgzMTUzNjY4OA",
  "state": "offline"
}

The ingest_endpoint is what we’ll focus on here.

rtmp://cinnamon-iad1-prd.origin.hopvideo.net/v.vanilla/psk_c18yZTU3NDk2ODAxOTMwMTVhZDA2YzE5OGVkMDBmYTQ3Nl8zMjMyNTcwOTgzMTUzNjY4OA

The RTMP ingest endpoint can be split up into logical partitions:

<protocol>://<origin_hostname>/<module>/<stream_key>

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Streaming with FFmpeg

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Streaming an X Window

A common use case for Pipe is streaming an X window from an Ignite container. For this, we recommend the following FFmpeg command:

ffmpeg -f x11grab -i :0.0 -b:a 96k -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -profile:v baseline -preset veryfast -acodec aac -b:a 192k -ar 44100 -pes_payload_size 0 -f flv <INGEST_ENDPOINT>

(where <INGEST_ENDPOINT> is the endpoint you received from the room creation request)

This will start streaming the X window to Pipe at it’s local resolution.

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Streaming a Video file

ffmpeg -re -stream_loop -1 -i <FILE_NAME> -b:a 96k -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -profile:v baseline -preset veryfast -acodec aac -b:a 192k -ar 44100 -pes_payload_size 0 -f flv <INGEST_ENDPOINT>

(where <FILE_NAME> is the file name and <INGEST_ENDPOINT> is the endpoint you received from the room creation request)

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Verifying Stream Status

You can verify that you’re streaming from the Pipe page on the Hop Console: