This project contains a docker based example of using ffmpeg, node-rtsp-strem-es6, and jsmpeg to convert an RTSP stream and embed it in a web page.

To start the example (using nginx to serve the static components) you can run docker-compose up. This will bind the WS server to port 9300 and the nginx server to 9301. These ports as well as the RTSP stream url can be set in the docker-compose.yml file.

Why doesn't my video stream work?

Currently the latest version of node-rtsp-streamer-es6 is using incorrect ffmpeg args per phoboslab/jsmpeg#149 (comment). There is an outstanding PR against node-rtsp-streamer-es6 to change this but in the meantime you can work around it by starting the containers, stopping them, manually editing node_modules/node-rtsp-stream-es6/src/mpeg1muxer.js and changing the line which spawns ffpmeg to:

this.stream = child_process.spawn("ffmpeg", ["-rtsp_transport", "tcp", "-i", this.url, '-f', 'mpegts', '-codec:v', 'mpeg1video', '-bf', '0', '-codec:a', 'mp2', '-r', '30', '-'], {

Note: The reason I didn't just do that as part of steram.sh or point to a branch on github it was mostly related to wanting to keep the docker image to a minimum anticipating that the PR will get merged.