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 <3.4 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

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)

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