node-rtsp-recorder

RTSP Stream Recorder.

Records RTSP Audio/Visual Streams to local disk using ffmpeg

Installation

    $ npm install --save node-rtsp-recorder

Recording Video

    const Recorder = require('node-rtsp-recorder').Recorder

    var rec = new Recorder({
        url: 'rtsp://192.168.1.12:8554/unicast',
        timeLimit: 60, // time in seconds for each segmented video file
        folder: '/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos',
        name: 'cam1',
    })
    // Starts Recording
    rec.startRecording();

    setTimeout(() => {
        console.log('Stopping Recording')
        rec.stopRecording()
        rec = null
    }, 300000)

If your camera generates empty .mp4 files when recording, you might need to update its audio codec by passing in one usable by your camera (e.g., aac) in the Recorder's constructor. For example:

  var rec = new Recorder({
    url: 'rtsp://192.168.1.12:8554/unicast',
        timeLimit: 60, // time in seconds for each segmented video file
        folder: '/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos',
        name: 'cam1',
        audioCodec: 'aac'
  })

Recording Audio

    const Recorder = require('node-rtsp-recorder').Recorder

    var rec = new Recorder({
        url: 'rtsp://192.168.1.12:8554/unicast',
        timeLimit: 60, // time in seconds for each segmented video file
        folder: '/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos',
        name: 'cam1',
        type: 'audio',
    })
    
    rec.startRecording();

    setTimeout(() => {
        console.log('Stopping Recording')
        rec.stopRecording()
        rec = null
    }, 125000)

Capturing Image

    const Recorder = require('node-rtsp-recorder').Recorder

    var rec = new Recorder({
        url: 'rtsp://192.168.1.12:8554/unicast',
        folder: '/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos',
        name: 'cam1',
        type: 'image',
    })

    rec.captureImage(() => {
        console.log('Image Captured')
    })

Managing Media Directory

    const FileHandler = require('../src/helpers/fileHandler')
    const fh = new FileHandler()
    // RETURNS DIRECTORY SIZE
    fh.getDirectorySize('/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos/', (err, value) => {
    if (err) {
        console.log('Error Occured')
        console.log(err)
        return true
    }
    console.log('Folder Size is ' + value)
    })
    // REMOVES ALL MEDIA FILES
    fh.removeDirectory('/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos/*', () => {
    console.log('Done')
    })

Setting custom filename formats

    const Recorder = require('node-rtsp-recorder').Recorder

    var rec = new Recorder({
        url: 'rtsp://192.168.1.12:8554/unicast',
        timeLimit: 60, // time in seconds for each segmented video file
        folder: '/Users/sahilchaddha/Sahil/Projects/Github/node-rtsp-recorder/videos',
        name: 'cam1',
        directoryPathFormat: 'MMM-D-YYYY',
        fileNameFormat: 'M-D-h-mm-ss',
    })
    // Default directoryPathFormat : MMM-Do-YY
    // Default fileNameFormat : YYYY-M-D-h-mm-ss
    // Refer to https://momentjscom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moment/04-displaying/01-format/ for custom formats.
    // Starts Recording
    rec.startRecording();