"Sub-Second Latency Live Streaming Server with Large-Scale and High-Definition" OvenMediaEngine

What is OvenMediaEngine?

In short, OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a Sub-Second Latency Live Streaming Server with Large-Scale and High-Definition.

OvenMediaEngine receives a video/audio source from encoders and cameras such as OvenLiveKit, OBS, XSplit, and more to WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, MPEG-2 TS and RTSP. Then, OME transmits it over LLHLS (Low Latency HLS) and WebRTC.

Like the picture below: OvenMediaEngine supports you can create platforms/services/systems that transmit high-definition video to hundreds-thousand viewers with sub-second latency and be scalable, depending on the number of concurrent viewers.

We also provide OvenPlayer, an Open-Source and JavaScript-based WebRTC Player for OvenMediaEngine.

What is the goal of this project?

AirenSoft aims to make it easier for you to build a stable broadcasting/streaming service with Sub-Second Latency. Therefore, we will continue developing and providing the most optimized tools for smooth Sub-Second Latency Streaming.

Would you please click on each link below for details:

• "Live Streaming Encoder for Mobile" OvenLiveKit
• "Large-Scale Streaming Server with Sub-Second Latency" OvenMediaEngine
• "JavaScript-based WebRTC Player" OvenPlayer

Features

• Ingest
  • Push: WebRTC, SRT, RTMP, MPEG-2 TS
  • Pull: RTSP
• Adaptive Bitrate Streaming(ABR) for LLHLS and WebRTC
• Low Latency Streaming using LLHLS
  • DVR (Live Rewind)
  • Dump for VoD
  • ID3v2 timed metadata
• Sub-Second Latency Streaming using WebRTC
  • WebRTC over TCP (With Embedded TURN Server)
  • Embedded WebRTC Signalling Server (WebSocket based)
  • Retransmission with NACK
  • ULPFEC (Uneven Level Protection Forward Error Correction)
    • VP8, H.264
  • In-band FEC (Forward Error Correction)
    • Opus
• Embedded Live Transcoder
  • Video: VP8, H.264, Pass-through
  • Audio: Opus, AAC, Pass-through
• Clustering (Origin-Edge Structure)
• Monitoring
• Access Control
  • Admission Webhooks
  • Singed Policy
• File Recording
• RTMP Push Publishing (Re-streaming)
• Thumbnail
• REST API
• Experiment
  • P2P Traffic Distribution (Only WebRTC)

Supported Platforms

We have tested OvenMediaEngine on the platforms listed below. However, we think it can work with other Linux packages as well:

• Docker
• Ubuntu 18+
• CentOS 7+
• Fedora 28+

Getting Started

Docker

docker run -d \
-p 1935:1935 \
-p 3333:3333 \
-p 3334:3334 \
-p 3478:3478 \
-p 9000:9000 \
-p 9999:9999/udp \
-p 4000:4000/udp \
--name ovenmediaengine \
airensoft/ovenmediaengine:latest

You can also store the configuration files on your host:

docker run -d \
-p 1935:1935 \
-p 3333:3333 \
-p 3334:3334 \
-p 3478:3478 \
-p 9000:9000 \
-p 9999:9999/udp \
-p 4000:4000/udp \
-v ome-origin-conf:/opt/ovenmediaengine/bin/origin_conf \
-v ome-edge-conf:/opt/ovenmediaengine/bin/edge_conf \
--name ovenmediaengine \
airensoft/ovenmediaengine:latest

The configuration files are now accessible under /var/lib/docker/volumes/<volume_name>/_data.

Following the above example, you will find them under /var/lib/docker/volumes/ome-origin-conf/_data and /var/lib/docker/volumes/ome-edge-conf/_data.

If you want to put them in a different location, the easiest way is to create a link:

ln -s /var/lib/docker/volumes/ome-origin-conf/_data/ /my/new/path/to/ome-origin-conf \
&& ln -s /var/lib/docker/volumes/ome-edge-conf/_data/ /my/new/path/to/ome-edge-conf

Other Methods

Please read the Getting Started.

How to contribute

Thank you so much for being so interested in OvenMediaEngine.

We need your help to keep and develop our open-source project, and we want to tell you that you can contribute in many ways. Please see our Guidelines, Rules, and Contribute.

• Finding Bugs
• Reviewing Code
• Sharing Ideas
• Testing
• Improving Documentation
• Spreading & Use Cases
• Recurring Donations

We always hope that OvenMediaEngine will give you good inspiration.

For more information

• OvenMediaEngine Website
  • Basic Information and Benchmark about OvenMediaEngine
• OvenMediaEngine Tutorial
  • Getting Started, Install, and Configuration
• OvenMediaEngine Tutorial Source
  • Please contribute by making a pull request for the user guide of our open-soure project
• OvenMediaEngine Docker Hub
  • Install and use OvenMeidaEngine easily using Docker
• Test Player
  • Without TLS: http://demo.ovenplayer.com
  • With TLS: https://demo.ovenplayer.com
• OvenPlayer Github
  • JavaScript-based WebRTC Player for OvenMediaEngine
• AirenSoft Website
  • AirenSoft's Solutions/Services, and AirenBlog (Tech Journal)

License

OvenMediaEngine is licensed under the AGPL-3.0-only. However, if you need another license, please feel free to email us at [email protected].