python-librtmp

python-librtmp is a RTMP client library. It uses the implementation provided by librtmp via cffi.

• Free software: BSD license
• Documentation:

Installation

The latest stable version is available to install using pip

sudo pip install python-librtmp

But you can also get the development version using Git:

git clone git://github.com/chrippa/python-librtmp.git
cd python-librtmp
sudo python setup.py install

Dependencies

• Python, at least version 2.6 or 3.3.
• a C compiler capapable of building Python extensions, e.g. gcc
• librtmp: The library including its headers (librtmp-dev or equivalent)
• cffi: cffi depends on libffi and its headers (libffi-dev or equivalent)
• On Python ❤️.4 the backport of singledispatch is also required.

Windows

python-librtmp (and cffi) has wheel packages (binaries) available on PyPi and can therefore be easily installed with pip 1.4+ without the need to compile anything:

> pip install python-librtmp

(on older pip versions you need to use --use-wheel)
> pip install --use-wheel python-librtmp

Features

Streaming

The most common use case of RTMP is to read a video stream from a server.

import librtmp

# Create a connection
conn = librtmp.RTMP("rtmp://your.server.net/app/playpath", live=True)
# Attempt to connect
conn.connect()
# Get a file-like object to access to the stream
stream = conn.create_stream()
# Read 1024 bytes of data
data = stream.read(1024)

Remote function calls

Here is a example of creating a Python function that can be used to call remote functions:

my_remote_method = conn.remote_method("MyRemoteMethod", block=True)
result = my_remote_method("some argument")

Waiting for the server to call our function:

# This will automatically name the function after it's Python name
@conn.invoke_handler
def my_add(a, b):
    return a + b

# Start waiting for calls
conn.process_packets()

You can also use custom function name instead:

@conn.invoke_handler("MyMath.MyAdd")

Instead of blocking forever when waiting for a call you can specify to wait only for a specific invoke and then stop blocking:

conn.process_packets(invoked_method="MyMath.MyAdd", timeout=30)

History

0.3.0 (2015-05-25)

• Added update_buffer option (enabled by default) to RTMP.create_stream, which enables a hack to increase throughput.
• Added a update_buffer method to RTMPStream.
• We now require at least version 1.0.1 of cffi.

0.2.2 (2015-04-15)

• Fixed proxy not being used by librtmp.
• Added support for Cygwin, patch by @schrobby. (#17)

0.2.1 (2014-09-01)

• Fixed expected bytes type on Python 2.
• Fixed singledispatch dependency condition.

0.2.0 (2014-04-07)

• RTMPError now inherits from IOError.
• Fixed MSVC build.
• Added librtmp.so.1 to library paths, patch by Athanasios Oikonomou. (#4)
• Added librtmp.dylib to library paths, patch by Will Donohoe. (#6)

0.1.2 (2013-10-08)

• Fixed compilation issue on some platforms.
• Fixed AMF issue on older librtmp versions. (#1)

0.1.1 (2013-09-25)

• Fixed packaging issues.

0.1.0 (2013-09-23)

• First release on PyPI.