MistAnalyserRTMP

This analyser is made to work with RTMP and E-RTMP captures. These are usually obtained through applications such as wireshark or tcpdump. Capture the side sending the data and save it as a file, pass that file to this analyser.

Usage

MistAnalyserRTMP [options] [filename]

Analysing an RTMP capture

By default The analyser returns the messaging that happened during the capture. This usually means the handshake and AMF data. This is often already enough to judge what might be the problem if an RTMp stream is rejected by MistServer when ingesting, or by the other side when pushing.

Higher detail levels will show more such as detail level 3 adding chunk data and 4 chunk information. At 10 you get the full chunk data which might be a bit too much.

If you're interested in seeing if the stream is valid you might want to try reconstructing it instead.

For example:

 message:
DDVTech Container returned
  String  connect
  Number  1
  Object
    String app live
    String type nonprivate
    String flashVer FMLE/3.0 (compatible; MistServer)
    String tcUrl rtmp://localhost/live
    Number capsEx 15
    Strict Array fourCcList
      String arrVal av01
      String arrVal avc1
      String arrVal hvc1
      String arrVal vp08
      String arrVal vp09
      String arrVal ac-3
      String arrVal ec-3
      String arrVal Opus
      String arrVal .mp3
      String arrVal fLaC
      String arrVal mp4a
    Object audioFourCcInfoMap
      Number ac-3 7
      Number ec-3 7
      Number Opus 7
      Number .mp3 7
      Number fLaC 7
      Number mp4a 7
    Object videoFourCcInfoMap
      Number av01 7
      Number avc1 7
      Number hvc1 7
      Number vp08 7
      Number vp09 7

CTRL: Set chunk size: 65536
Received AFM0 command message:
DDVTech Container returned
  String  releaseStream
  Number  2
  Null
  String  live%2bertmp

Received AFM0 command message:
DDVTech Container returned
  String  FCPublish
  Number  3
  Null
  String  live%2bertmp

Received AFM0 command message:
DDVTech Container returned
  String  createStream
  Number  4
  Null

Received AFM0 command message:
DDVTech Container returned
  String  publish
  Number  5
  Null
  String  live%2bertmp
  String  live

CTRL: Acknowledgement: 3670
CTRL: Window size: 2500000
Received AFM0 data message (metadata):
DDVTech Container returned
  String  @setDataFrame
  String  onMetaData
  ECMA Array
    Bool hasVideo 1
    Number videocodecid 7
    Number width 1280
    Number height 720
    Number videoframerate 50
    Number videodatarate 2008.9
    Bool hasAudio 1
    Number audiodelay 0
    Number audiochannels 2
    Number audiosamplerate 48000
    Number audiosamplesize 32
    Number audiodatarate 3000

Reconstructing a playlist

Example:

MistAnalyserRTMP capture.raw -R example.flv

This would take the stream out of a raw capture and convert it to a playable FLV file. Which is the same container as RTMP uses internally and can then in turn be used to analyse as well. Working with a FLV file can sometimes be easier than working with a raw capture or live rtmp stream.

Options

Option	shorthand	Value	Default	Description
--debug	-g	1-10	Set at compilation, 3 in most cases	Sets the debug level at which messages are printed
--detail	-D	0-10	2	Sets the detail level for analyses
--help	-h	Binary	false	If set, display usage and version information then exit
--reconstruct	-R	string		Reconstruct a FLV file from the HLS stream to the given filename.
--timeout	-T	Numeral		Time in Seconds to run the analyses task
--validate	-V	Binary	false	If set activate validation mode for load testing
--version	-v	Binary	false	If set display the library and application version, then exit