Restreamer is a free and open-source video streaming application that can restream RTMP streams to multiple platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Periscope. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Restreamer on Linux Mint Latest.
Before installing Restreamer, you need to make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
If you don't already have Docker installed on your system, you can follow the instructions from the official Docker documentation to install it.
To install Docker Compose on Linux Mint, you can follow the instructions from the official Docker documentation:
Or you can run the following commands:
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
You can download Restreamer from the official website or you can use the following command to download the latest version:
wget https://github.com/datarhei/restreamer/raw/master/docker-compose.yml
Before running Restreamer, you need to configure it by editing the docker-compose.yml file. Open the file in your favorite text editor and modify the following settings:
rtmp://localhost:1935/live/stream)/live/stream.m3u8)2000k)128k)30)You can also modify the ports used by Restreamer (by default, it uses port 8080 for the web interface and port 1935 for RTMP). Save your changes after making modifications.
To start Restreamer, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the docker-compose.yml file and run the following command:
sudo docker-compose up -d
The -d flag runs the containers in detached mode, which means they will run in the background.
You can check that Restreamer is running by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser. You should see the Restreamer web interface, where you can configure your restreaming to different platforms.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Restreamer on Linux Mint Latest using Docker and Docker Compose. Restreamer provides a simple and powerful way to restream RTMP streams to multiple platforms.
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