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HTTP

This source supports receiving a stream via an HTTP link.

It can determine the source format from theContent-Type HTTP header:

• HTTP-JPEG (image/jpeg) - camera snapshot link, can be converted by go2rtc to MJPEG stream
• HTTP-MJPEG (multipart/x-mixed-replace) - A continuous sequence of JPEG frames (with HTTP headers).
• HLS (application/vnd.apple.mpegurl) - A popular HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format, which is not designed for real-time media transmission.

[!WARNING] The HLS format is not designed for real time and is supported quite poorly. It is recommended to use it via ffmpeg source with buffering enabled (disabled by default).

TCP

Source also supports HTTP and TCP streams with autodetection for different formats:

• adts - Audio stream in AAC codec with Audio Data Transport Stream (ADTS) headers.
• flv - The legacy but still used Flash Video format.
• h264 - AVC/H.264 bitstream.
• hevc - HEVC/H.265 bitstream.
• mjpeg - A continuous sequence of JPEG frames (without HTTP headers).
• mpegts - The legacy MPEG transport stream format.
• wav - Audio stream in WAV format.
• yuv4mpegpipe - Raw YUV frame stream with YUV4MPEG header.

Configuration

streams:
  # [HTTP-FLV] stream in video/x-flv format
  http_flv: http://192.168.1.123:20880/api/camera/stream/780900131155/657617
  
  # [JPEG] snapshots from Dahua camera, will be converted to MJPEG stream
  dahua_snap: http://admin:password@192.168.1.123/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=1

  # [MJPEG] stream will be proxied without modification
  http_mjpeg: https://mjpeg.sanford.io/count.mjpeg

  # [MJPEG or H.264/H.265 bitstream or MPEG-TS]
  tcp_magic: tcp://192.168.1.123:12345

  # Add custom header
  custom_header: "https://mjpeg.sanford.io/count.mjpeg#header=Authorization: Bearer XXX"

PS. Dahua camera has a bug: if you select MJPEG codec for RTSP second stream, snapshot won't work.