Schedule video streaming

Goals:

Run Nextcloud External Script to schedule stremaming of mp4 file

• Schedule video streaming
• Requirements
• Setup
  • Structure of run script
    • Available events
  • config.php

Requirements

• Composer
• ffmpeg

Setup

• Clone this repository
• run composer install on root folder of this repository
• Copy the repository folder to files home of your Nextcloud account
• Setup Nextcloud External Script app
• Configure the rtmp URL on Nextcloud config.php file
• Create a tag to use with a part of hook to run your script. I.E.: streaming. Suggestion: go to files and apply a tag to a file to create your tag and remove the tag, the tag will be saved on your database.
• Go to Settings > Administration > Flow
• Click on "Add new flow"
• Configure a Workflow with the follow settings:

Structure of run script

param	description
php	binary of php on your sytem
/var/www/.../script.php	full path to script.php file
schedule	event to run
app_name	A fake app name of your event. Used to storage the script on appconfig table
/var/www/html	root folder of Nextcloud setup
%n	workflow script placeholder to nextcloud-relative path

Available events

• schedule: get the filename and schedule an event following the pattern of filename. The filename needs to follow this pattern: YYYYmmdd_HHii
• run: Run the scheduled streaming. This is a internal event, don't use with a parameter of run script.

config.php

Replacey app_name by a fake app_name you choosed to identify your script

With as rtmp server use this project: https://github.com/michaelkamprath/multi-service-rtmp-broadcaster

Example of config.php settings

  'app_name' =>
  array(
    'rtmp_url' => 'rtmp://rtmp.site.coop/live/live?pwd=password_here'
  ),