RTSP Bench

RTSP Server that generates usage reports, Web/CLI Clients included!

rtsp-bench is a WebRTC server that pulls from an RTSP feed, and then re-distributes via WebRTC. It generates a report.csv with the CPU Usage and connected PeerConnection count.

This repo contains a CLI WebRTC Client that will connect and perform the load test. This is done via a REST API hosted on :8080/doSignaling. You can also watch the video/load test via the web UI at :8080/, it connects via the same REST API as the CLI.

This project heavily borrows from RTSPtoWebRTC. If you are looking for a full featured application to deploy that is probably a better choice. It is driven by a config file and has proper error handling.

Running

• export GO111MODULE=on
• git clone https://github.com/pion/rtsp-bench.git
• cd rtsp-bench/server
• go run main.go

You can then access the Web UI at http://localhost:8080. This requires a browser that supports H264, this repo doesn't do any error handling around signaling failures.

You can also use the provided WebRTC CLI

• cd rtsp-bench/client
• go run main.go localhost:8080

In the server folder you will have a reports.csv that looks like

timestamp, peerConnectionCount, cpuUsage
2020-12-15T13:59:23-08:00, 1, 17.878028
2020-12-15T13:59:26-08:00, 0, 35.101254
2020-12-15T13:59:29-08:00, 1, 12.565718
2020-12-15T13:59:32-08:00, 1, 20.600500
2020-12-15T13:59:35-08:00, 1, 17.878028
2020-12-15T13:59:38-08:00, 0, 41.795438
2020-12-15T13:59:41-08:00, 0, 37.083333

Results

The following graph was generated from the results.csv that was generated by the server. The client was run from another EC2 instance in the same VPC. The Y Axis is the CPU Usage, and the X Axis is the count of PeerConnections. This was run on a m4.2xlarge (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz)

FAQ

What codec/bitrate was being distributed

H264 that is approximately 250 Kb/s. You can change that here

What SRTP Cipher was used

SRTP_AEAD_AES_128_GCM

What Congestion Control/Feedback is used

None, on purpose.

Pion by design allows the user to specify what they want. We are distributing a video feed that is already encoded, and has a very small keyframe-interval so these things don't help us.

When setting up the PeerConnection you have full control of the RTP/RTCP pipelines, so users can add TWCC/NACK/FEC in a way that works for them.

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License

MIT License - see LICENSE for full text