Building a Live Streaming Platform with Nginx, FFmpeg, and RTMP/HLS
Architectural Overview
A live video broadcasting system comprises three fundamental components: a publishing endpoint, a media server, and playback clients.
The publishing side uses FFmpeg for encoding and sending streams. The server layer employs Nginx enhanced with an RTMP module to ingest and distribute content. Viewer-side playback can be h ...
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:35:30 +0000 by fbm