First we make sure we have the build tools we need.



<pre class="brush: bash">
apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev cmake subversion
</pre>



Fetch the source code through subversion. 



<pre class="brush: bash">
svn co --username anonymous https://svn.rtmpd.com/crtmpserver/trunk rtmp
[enter] #password should be empty
</pre>



rtmp at the end of line 1 above is the name of the directory where the source files are checked out to relative to your current 

directory. For example if your current directory is /home/folder, rtmp will be created in this location and so the final path will be 

/home/folder/rtmp.


Issue the following commands to start building the source.




<pre class="brush: bash">
cd rtmp/builders/cmake
</pre>



<pre class="brush: bash">
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make
</pre>




cmake builds our Makefiles, make create our binaries using Makefiles created by cmake. Notice the dot [.] after cmake. If 

you plan to install the binaries somewhere else, issue the 
commands that follow instead of the above. In the cmake command below install-dir is the path where you want the binaries installed.



<pre class="brush: bash">
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCRTMPSERVER_INSTALL_PREFIX=&lt;install-dir>
make
make install
</pre>



The build process will create our crtmpserver server executable and a ready to use configuration file named crtmpserver.lua. crtmpserver 

and the configuration file are saved in 

[current-directory]/[check-out-directory]/builders/cmake/crtmpserver. This configuration file consists of two main sections, the 

logAppenders 

and applications sections. For FLV streaming, the default configuration has already an appselector and an application 

ready for use. All 

we need is to change the location of our media files. But first let us test if our build works.




Issue the following command from where you issued make.


<pre class="brush: bash">
crtmpserver/crtmpserver crtmpserver/crtmpserver.lua
</pre>


If you have installed crtmpserver somewhere else, access crtmpserver from that install location and enter the location of the configuration file in the first (and only) parameter.



If you moved the configuration file, you should also change the value of rootDirectory. rootDirectory is defined in the configuration file, its default value is "applications" directory. The applications directory is located in the cmake directory. 



If there were no errors you should see a list of applications, ports and other applications details. Press ctrl-c to exit.



Configuration



Change the default media location to a desired location where you want to store your FLV files. Below is the section of crtmpserver.lua that 

needs to be modified for the mediaFolder.



<pre class="brush: bash">
 description="FLV Playback Sample",
 name="flvplayback",
 protocol="dynamiclinklibrary",
 mediaFolder="/home/primo/media/",
 aliases=
 {
 "simpleLive",
 "vod",
 "live",
 "WeeklyQuest",
 "SOSample",
 "oflaDemo",
 },
</pre>



You may also want to change the loglevel from the logAppenders section. The default is log level is 6. That is the highest log level 

which logs everything into a file also defined in the logAppenders section. Log level values can be from 1 to 6.



<pre class="brush: bash">
 {
 name="file appender",
 type="file",
 level=6,
 -- the file where the log messages are going to land
 fileName="/tmp/crtmpserver",
 --newLineCharacters="\r\n",
 fileHistorySize=10,
 fileLength=1024*256,
 singleLine=true
 }
</pre>



crtmpserver can be run as a deamon or as a normal application. crtmpserver runs as normal application by default. To run it as a daemon, 

locate 

 daemon=false near the beginning of the configuration file and change the value to true. You can also use the command line option --deamon to this effect.



<pre class="brush: bash">
crtmpserver/crtmpserver --help
</pre>



If you are running behind a firewall you should open up some ports especially the appSelector port.



Live Test



For our test we use JWplayer which can be downloaded <a href="http://www.longtailvideo.com/" target="_blank" class="news_link">here</a>



<pre class="brush: xml">
&lt;html>
 &lt;head>
 &lt;title></title>
 &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="./player/jw/swfobject.js" /></script>
 &lt;/head>
 &lt;body>
 &lt;div id="media">player will be here&lt;/div>

 &lt;script type='text/javascript'>
 var so = new SWFObject('./player/jw/player.swf','mpl','640','360','9');
 so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
 so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
 so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
 so.addVariable('file','sample');
 so.addVariable('streamer','rtmp://ur-domain.com/flvplayback/');
 so.write('media');
 &lt;/script>
 &lt;/body>
&lt;/html>
</pre>



Change ur-domain.com to your domain or IP address.



flvplayback is our application set in our crtmpserver.lua configuration. Our media file is sample.flv and can be entered with or without the 

extension. sample.flv is stored in our mediaFolder directory we set in our configuration file.



The following are the audio and video types/formats supported by the default flvplayback application per documentation that come with the 

source. 


<table cellpadding="8" rules="all" style="width:550px;">

<tr style="font-size:10px;font-weight:bold;">
<td >
Type
</td>
<td width="200">
Naming/Access Name
</td>
<td>
File
</td>

<tr>
<td>
mp3
</td>
<td>
mp3:file_name
</td>
<td>
file_name.mp3
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
flv
</td>
<td>
file_name (or file_name.flv)
</td>
<td>
(*) file_name.flv
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
mp4
</td>
<td>
mp4:file_name.mp4
</td>
<td>
(*) file_name.mp4
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
m4a
</td>
<td>
mp4:file_name.m4a
</td>
<td>
file_name.m4a
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
m4v
</td>
<td>
mp4:file_name.m4v
</td>
<td>
file_name.m4v
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
mov
</td>
<td>
mp4:file_name.mov
</td>
<td>
(*) file_name.mov
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
f4v
</td>
<td>
mp4:file_name.f4v
</td>
<td>
file_name.f4v
</td>
</tr>

</table>



(*) - Tested and works



To further configure the player see the <a href=" http://www.longtailvideo.com/" target="_blank" title="JWplayer" class="news_link">JWplayer website</a>.



Unlike <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/HowtoBlogs.xhtml?b=444" title="Install and setup http psuedo streaming service with xmoov-php and Apache2" class="news_link" >psuedo HTTP streaming</a> we don't need to enject metadata to FLV files.



You may also want to visit <a href="http://www.rtmpd.com/" target="_blank" title="RTMP C++ Website" class="news_link">crtmpserver website</a> for additional read.



That's it. Good luck.



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