Can I allow a new broadcaster to kick off an existing broadcaster with RTMP?

[Baa14453]

I have a situation where I need to hand-off one RTMP broadcaster to another.
Ideally, i would like the new broadcaster to initiate an RTMP connection and once established, SRS would kick-off the previous broadcaster.

Currently, when the new broadcaster tries to connect they are simply rejected.

[winlinvip]

For security reason, SRS does not allow overwriting streams, just like you should never overwrite a file in server without --force. SRS does not support --force mode.

If you want publishing multiple streams for fault tolerance, these streams should be the same to others and published simultaneously. This means you should use different stream name, for exmaple:

1. Publish live/stream-master to SRS.
2. Publish live/stream-slave to SRS.
3. Use FFmpeg to pull master and publish as live/stream to SRS.
4. If stream-master experiences error, pull stream-slave and publish as live/stream to SRS.
5. Go to step 3 if stream-slave is not available.

In this situation, you got a reliable live/stream as long as any individual stream is available.

This solution also works if you want to do use specified stream, like switching between scenes of OBS. You can do this by pull specified stream, such as stream-0 or stream-1 or stream-N and publish as stream with FFmpeg.

By using the SRS HTTP callback, you can switch to the new stream automatically. In the HTTP callback handler, you can stop the FFmpeg and pull the new stream.

[Baa14453]

Thanks I'll give it a go