Multi-worker live streaming in master

A few days ago I have merged auto-push branch in master. Several people reported it's pretty stable. Now it's possible to do multi-worker live streaming with nginx-rtmp. That can make you achieve really huge traffic. The tests show 2-2.5 Gbps per core. With 16-core CPU it can be as much as 32-35 Gbps.

Auto-push module uses unix domain sockets to pass streams to all workers from the one which has accepted the connection. Every worker has its own unix socket to listen.

The directives to control this feature:

• rtmp_auto_push on|off - toggle auto-push mode, off by default


• rtmp_auto_push_reconnect timeout - reconnect timeout after worker got killed, default is 100ms


• rtmp_socket_dir dir - directory where worker unix domain sockets will be created, default it /tmp. Permissions to create files at that location are needed obviously

All the directives should be placed at the root (top) scope (not rtmp{} or whatever).

Example:

rtmp_auto_push on;
rtmp_auto_push_reconnect 1s;
rtmp_socket_dir /var/sock;

rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935;
        application myapp {
            live on;
        }
    }
}

Statistics url does not return overall statistics for all workers but for a single random worker (which accepted the request). That's a task for future.