Discover SRS, the all-in-one open-source media server solution for seamless live streaming, content creation, and AI integration, simplifying broadcasting across platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and TikTok.
Written by Winlin and GPT4
While Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is a widely used solution for live-streaming to YouTube via RTMP or RTMPS, there is an alternative approach that leverages a web browser.
This method involves streaming your camera using WebRTC within a webpage, then employing Simple Realtime Server (SRS) to convert WebRTC to RTMP, and using FFmpeg to publish the RTMP stream to YouTube. For those who prefer RTMPS, FFmpeg can be utilized to extract the stream from SRS via RTMP, transcode it to RTMPS, and subsequently publish it to YouTube.
As a CA(Certificate Authority), Let's Encrypt provides free and automatic TLS/SSL certificates, which enables encrypted HTTPS for SRS Droplet. It's very easy to use, only by 1-Click.
HTTPS is required for publishing streams using WebRTC, and it improves security. If you want to support the video streaming in any HTTPS website, such as a WordPress website, you must use HLS/FLV/WebRTC with HTTPS, or it will fail for security reasons.
Note that SRS droplet only supports a single domain name, which makes the problem simple. It is easy to use.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure the HTTPS for SRS droplets, and your certificate will be renewed automatically.
Streaming video is very popular in a variety of industries, and there are many tutorials for building a media server, using SRS or NGINX-RTMP that host stream does not rely on other service providers.