I am trying to play some audio on my linux server and stream it to multiple internet browsers. I have a loopback device I'm specifying as input to ffmpeg. ffmpeg is then streamed via rtp to a WebRTC server (Janus). It works, but the sound that comes out is horrible.
Here's the command I'm using to stream from ffmpeg to janus over rtp:
nice --20 sudo ffmpeg -re -f alsa -i hw:Loopback,1,0 -c:a libopus -ac
1 -b:a 64K -ar 8000 -vn -rtbufsize 250M -f rtp rtp://127.0.0.1:17666
The WebRTC server (Janus) requires that the audio codec be opus. If I try to do 2 channel audio or increase the sampling rate, the stream slows down or sound worse. The "nice" command is to give the process higher priority.
Using gstreamer instead of ffmpeg works and sounds great!
Here's the cmd I'm using on CentOS 7:
sudo gst-launch-1.0 alsasrc device=hw:Loopback,1,0 ! rawaudioparse ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! opusenc ! rtpopuspay ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1 port=14365