RTMP is a protocol designed for flash. Unfortunately it can only be played by a flash player, or desktop clients such as VLC media player. With the move from flash to HTML 5 players, it is impossible to get an RTMP stream running. I have been able to overcome this hurdle by creating a server which acts as an RTMP server, then converts the stream over to MP4 and serves it via HTTP. This is just a proof of concept, showing that it is possible to do. I plan on completing this project and putting it on github, however I just don't have the time for it right now, so here is a proof-of-concept which can be modified to suite your needs. Before you can run this you will need to be in the directory containing server.js (this is what I named the file). ## Before you can run the server

$ npm install http rtmpdump rtmp-server
$ sudo apt-get install rtmpdump

## server.js

#!/usr/bin/node
const RtmpServer = require('rtmp-server');
const rtmpServer = new RtmpServer();

rtmpServer.on('error', err => {
  throw err;
});
rtmpServer.on('client', client => {
  client.on('connect', () => {
     console.log('connect', client.app);
  });
  
  client.on('play', ({ streamName }) => {
    console.log('PLAY', streamName);
  });
  
  client.on('publish', ({ streamName }) => {
    console.log('PUBLISH', streamName);
  });
  
  client.on('stop', () => {
    console.log('client disconnected');
  });
});

rtmpServer.listen(1935);

var rtmpdump = require('rtmpdump');
var fs = require('fs');
 
var options = {
  rtmp: 'rtmp://127.0.0.1/live',
  playpath: 'poc',
  v: null // parameter-less command line switches must have null as a value 
};
 
var stream = rtmpdump.createStream(options);
 
stream.on('connected', function(info) {
  // info provides various details about the stream 
  // duration, resolution, codecs, ... 
  console.log(info);
});
 
stream.on('progress', function(kbytes, elapsed, percent) {
  console.log('%s kbytes read, %s secs elapsed, %s%%', kbytes, elapsed, percent);
});
 
stream.on('error', function(err) {
  // as usual, unhandled error events will throw 
  console.log(err);
  process.exit(1);
});
 
stream.on('exit', function(err) {
    console.log(err);
});

var http = require('http');

//create a server object:
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  stream.pipe(res); //write a response to the client
}).listen(8080); //the server object listens on port 8080

Once setup you can run and start streaming to the server. To stream fire up OBS and put the following information in: * **Host:** rtmp://127.0.0.1/live * **Stream Key:** poc Now point VLC or your HTML5 player of choice to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ and the stream will start to play.