This project has been merged into rtsp-simple-server; please look at this page for instructions on how to setup a RTSP proxy:

https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server#usage-as-rtsp-proxy

rtsp-simple-proxy is a simple, ready-to-use and zero-dependency RTSP proxy, a software that receives one or more existing RTSP streams and makes them available to other users. A proxy is usually deployed in one of these scenarios:

• when there are multiple users that are receiving a stream and the bandwidth is limited, so the proxy is used to receive the stream once. Users can then connect to the proxy instead of the original source.
• when there's a NAT / firewall between a stream and the users, in this case the proxy is installed in the NAT and makes the stream available to the outside world.

Features:

• Receive multiple streams in TCP or UDP
• Distribute streams in TCP or UDP
• Supports the RTP/RTCP streaming protocol
• Supports authentication (i.e. username and password)
• Compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac, does not require any dependency or interpreter, it's a single executable

Precompiled binaries are available in the release page. Just download and extract the executable.

1. Create a configuration file named conf.yml, placed in the same folder of the executable, with the following content:

   streams:
     # name of the stream
     mypath:
       # url of the source stream, in the format rtsp://user:pass@host:port/path
       url: rtsp://myhost:8554/mystream

2. Launch the proxy:

   ./rtsp-simple-proxy
   

3. Open any stream you have defined in the configuration file, by using the stream name as path, for instance with VLC:

   vlc rtsp://localhost:8554/mypath
   

# timeout of read operations
readTimeout: 5s
# timeout of write operations
writeTimeout: 5s

server:
  # supported protocols
  protocols: [ tcp, udp ]
  # port of the RTSP TCP listener
  rtspPort: 8554
  # port of the RTP UDP listener
  rtpPort: 8050
  # port of the RTCP UDP listener
  rtcpPort: 8051
  # optional username required to read
  readUser:
  # optional password required to read
  readPass:

streams:
  # name of the stream
  test1:
    # url of the source stream, in the format rtsp://user:pass@host:port/path
    url: rtsp://myhost:8554/mystream
    # whether to use tcp or udp
    protocol: udp

usage: rtsp-simple-proxy [<flags>] <confpath>

rtsp-simple-proxy v0.0.0

RTSP proxy.

Flags:
  --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
  --version  print version

Args:
  [<confpath>]  path of a config file. The default is conf.yml. Use 'stdin' to
                read config from stdin

Related projects

• https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server
• https://github.com/aler9/gortsplib

IETF Standards

• RTSP 1.0 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2326
• RTSP 2.0 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7826
• HTTP 1.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616