And if anyone is interested in live streaming video from a jail, you can either build Nginx from source with the rtmp and stream modules, or install nginx-full using pkg (which has the proper modules) then follow this tutorial
Works fairly well.
Forget all that. I just found an incredible tool.
Mediamtx is a great tool for streaming, and implements mobile viewing as well. But you have to build from souce, but it takes about 2 minutes. Here are the instruction for anyone...
1.
pkg install git-lite go121 nano
2.
mkdir /usr/local/www && cd /usr/local/www (or put it anywhere you like, but i prefer this path)
3.
git clone https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx && cd mediamtx
4.
go generate ./... then
go121 build . (this will take about 30 seconds)
5.
cp mediamtx /usr/local/bin/ && cp mediamtx.yml /usr/local/etc/
6.
chown -R www:www /usr/local/www && chown www:www /usr/local/etc/mediamtx.yml
7.
mkdir /usr/local/etc/rc.d && nano /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mediamtx and copy/paste the next block (this will be the rc script)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Mediamtx FreeBSD Service Script
# PROVIDE: mediamtx
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown
. /etc/rc.subr
name=mediamtx
user=www
rcvar=mediamtx_enable
: ${mediamtx_enable:="NO"}
pidfile=/var/run/${name}
command=/usr/sbin/daemon
command_args="-f -u ${user} /usr/local/bin/${name}"
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
8.
chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mediamtx
9.
service mediamtx start
10 . Start streaming from an rtmp client, including mobile clients!
The config file is at
/usr/local/etc/mediamtx.yml if you want to make changes. It's pretty well documented on their github.
