restreamer: Unable to work at all

Hello,

Thank you very much for your work, I can’t wait to be able to use it.

My issue in a few words

• I start restreamer from the docker container,
• I go to localhost:8080
• and when I try and stream to YouTube, it just simply won’t work at all.

Details about the test I ran

I run restreamer as a docker-compose :

version: '3.7'

# Settings and configurations that are common for all containers
x-restream-common: &restream-common
  image: datarhei/restreamer:0.6.8
  # command: server --console-address ":9001" http://minio{1...4}/data{1...2}
  expose:
    - "8080"
    # I ran a netstat -tulpn intocontainers to
    # check which network ports were used, and
    # tested exposing those
    # ---> it just does not hel at all to expose those, it's
    #      just spaghetti networking inside the container, between
    #      the software components and throguh container internal NGINX 

    # - "3000"
    # - "1935"
  ports:
    - "8080:8080"
    # I ran a netstat -tulpn intocontainers to
    # check which network ports were used, and
    # tested exposing those
    # ---> it just does not hel at all to expose those, it's
    #      just spaghetti networking inside the container, between
    #      the software components and throguh container internal NGINX 

    # - "3000:3000"
    # - "1935:1935"
  restart: always
  environment:
    RS_USERNAME: $RS_USERNAME
    RS_PASSWORD: $RS_PASSWORD
    RS_DEBUG: true
  # healthcheck:
    # test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/"]
    # interval: 30s
    # timeout: 20s
    # retries: 3


services:
  restreamer:
    <<: *restream-common
    # hostname: restreamer.pokus.io
    volumes:
      - restreamer_data1-1:/restreamer/db

## This config uses default local driver,
## For custom volumes replace with volume driver configuration.
volumes:
  restreamer_data1-1:
    driver: local

I use the url rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s (I fill in both the web page at http://localhost:8080 ), I get :

• In Webui an error message in a red striped box, stating :

"Your stream wasn’t accessible. rtmp://localhost:1935/hls/live.stream: Operation not permitted "

• The following error logs :

connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s" in 6000ms
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:42.828] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s"
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:42.828] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Start streaming
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:42.840] [ERROR] [                 NGINX] :1935
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:42.842] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s" in 6000ms
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:48.809] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s"
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:48.809] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Start streaming
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:48.821] [ERROR] [                 NGINX] :1935
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:48.823] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s" in 6000ms
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:54.831] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s"
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:54.832] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Start streaming
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:54.844] [ERROR] [                 NGINX] :1935
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:54.847] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s" in 6000ms
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:03:56.419] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Stop streaming
restream-restreamer-1  | [09-12-2021 06:04:00.853] [INFO ] [repeatToOptionalOutput] Retry to connect to "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s"

• Note I am puzzled because i do not get any difference in the logs whether i set RS_DEBUG to true or not. (solved, see https://github.com/datarhei/restreamer/blob/2d851cdbadb1d7f2c4ffed7750c08daf43ea709f/docker-compose.yml#L16 )
• Yes ue03-gu47-v24y-xxjh-3c5s is a secret, and I rotated it (it won’t work if you try using that secret)

My only guess as of today : RTMP is a 2 way TCP connection, so i need a public IP, Am I Right ? If so, i think it woud be worth mentioning it somewhere, like in the install instructions and/or the YouTube howtos.

I so hope I will have help from anyone, there are people who created issues 15 days ago who state they can successfully stream to YouTube (so i guess I have just a basic error somewhere… So frustrating…)