Monibuca v5

A highly scalable high-performance streaming server development framework developed purely in Go
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Table of Contents

1. About
2. Getting Started
3. Usage
4. Build Tags
5. Monitoring
6. Plugin Development
7. Contributing
8. License

About

Monibuca is a powerful streaming server framework written entirely in Go. It's designed to be:

• 🚀 High Performance - Lock-free design, partial manual memory management, multi-core computing

• ⚡ Low Latency - Zero-wait forwarding, sub-second latency across the entire chain

• 📦 Modular - Load on demand, unlimited extensibility

• 🔧 Flexible - Highly configurable to meet various streaming scenarios

• 💪 Scalable - Supports distributed deployment, easily handles large-scale scenarios

• 🔍 Debug Friendly - Built-in debug plugin, real-time performance monitoring and analysis

• 🎥 Media Processing - Supports screenshot, transcoding, SEI data processing

• 🔄 Cluster Capability - Built-in cascade and room management

• 🎮 Preview Features - Supports video preview, multi-screen preview, custom screen layouts

• 🔐 Security - Provides encrypted transmission and stream authentication

• 📊 Performance Monitoring - Supports stress testing and performance metrics collection

• 📝 Log Management - Log rotation, auto cleanup, custom extensions

• 🎬 Recording & Playback - Supports MP4, HLS, FLV formats, speed control, seeking, pause

• ⏱️ Dynamic Time-Shift - Dynamic cache design, supports live time-shift playback

• 🌐 Remote Call - Supports gRPC interface for cross-language integration

• 🏷️ Stream Alias - Supports dynamic stream alias, flexible multi-stream management

• 🤖 AI Capabilities - Integrated inference engine, ONNX model support, custom pre/post processing

• 🪝 WebHook - Subscribe to stream lifecycle events for business system integration

• 🔒 Private Protocol - Supports custom private protocols for special business needs

• 🔄 Supported Protocols: RTMP, RTSP, HTTP-FLV, WS-FLV, HLS, WebRTC, GB28181, ONVIF, SRT

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go 1.23 or higher
• Basic understanding of streaming protocols

Run with Default Configuration

cd example/default
go run -tags sqlite main.go

Web UI

Place the admin.zip file (do not unzip) in the same directory as your configuration file.

Then visit http://localhost:8080 to access the UI.

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Examples

For more examples, please check out the example documentation.

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Build Tags

The following build tags can be used to customize your build:

Build Tag	Description
disable_rm	Disables the memory pool
sqlite	Enables the sqlite DB
sqliteCGO	Enables the sqlite cgo version DB
mysql	Enables the mysql DB
postgres	Enables the postgres DB
duckdb	Enables the duckdb DB
taskpanic	Throws panic, for testing

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Monitoring

Monibuca supports Prometheus monitoring out of the box. Add the following to your Prometheus configuration:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: "monibuca"
    metrics_path: "/api/metrics"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:8080"]

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Plugin Development

Monibuca's functionality can be extended through plugins. For information on creating plugins, see the plugin guide.

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

monibuca - @m7server - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/langhuihui/monibuca

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