Ant Media Server In an LXD Container Help Needed

[Ray Jender]

I am working on an idea for using LXD containers to host Ant Media Server instances.   One Ant Media Server per container.

I won't go into details why I am doing this. Its more of an experiment at this time. But just know that I need containers to accomplish my goal.

So my infrastructure is:  One VPS running Ubuntu 18.04; one LXD Container also running Ubuntu 18.04 and HAProxy, and one LXD container running Ubuntu 18.04 and hosting Ant Media Server. Both containers are inside the VPS.

I have this working, in the sense that I can browse to a subdomain of my domain and forward the query to the container and access Ant Media .  The getusermedia is working fine.  I can access

my web cam and see my webcam video.  If I click the "Start Publishing" button, it does start the publishing, but the publishing stops after 10-15 seconds for some reason.  Here is a diagram of my current configuration.   The functionality would be this:

1. The broadcaster would browse to https://amsc1.mydomain.us

2. The VPS would perform port forwarding for  ports 80/443 and forward the URL to

the HAProxy container.

3. The HAProxy would trigger on the subdomain part of the URL, which in this example would be

amsc1 and redirect to the amsc1 container

4. The Ant Media Server would be accessed and the broadcaster webcam/mic would be accessed

and getUsermedia would fire.  The broadcaster would see his webcam video.

5. Clicking the "Start Broadcasting" would start the broadcast.

So, steps 1-4 are working find.  It's step 5 that is not working.  It starts to broadcast,  but after 10-15 seconds it stops.

I have opened the UDP ports 5000:65000 as others have recommended but that obviously did not help.

Any ideas how to fix are welcome.  I have also attached a copy of the log file for this procedure.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks,

Ray

Broadcast Stops After 10-15 Secs.txt

[Ray Jender]

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On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 2:47:07 PM UTC-4, Ray Jender wrote:

I am working on an idea for using LXD containers to host Ant Media Server instances.   One Ant Media Server per container.

I won't go into details why I am doing this. Its more of an experiment at this time. But just know that I need containers to accomplish my goal.

So my infrastructure is:  One VPS running Ubuntu 18.04; one LXD Container also running Ubuntu 18.04 and HAProxy, and one LXD container running Ubuntu 18.04 and hosting Ant Media Server. Both containers are inside the VPS.

I have this working, in the sense that I can browse to a subdomain of my domain and forward the query to the container and access Ant Media .  The getusermedia is working fine.  I can access

my web cam and see my webcam video.  If I click the "Start Publishing" button, it does start the publishing, but the publishing stops after 10-15 seconds for some reason.  Here is a diagram of my current configuration.   The functionality would be this:

1. The broadcaster would browse to https://amsc1.mydomain.us

2. The VPS would perform port forwarding for  ports 80/443 and forward the URL to

the HAProxy container.

3. The HAProxy would trigger on the subdomain part of the URL, which in this example would be

amsc1 and redirect to the amsc1 container

4. The Ant Media Server would be accessed and the broadcaster webcam/mic would be accessed

and getUsermedia would fire.  The broadcaster would see his webcam video.

5. Clicking the "Start Broadcasting" would start the broadcast.

So, steps 1-4 are working find.  It's step 5 that is not working.  It starts to broadcast,  but after 10-15 seconds it stops.

I have opened the UDP ports 5000:65000 as others have recommended but that obviously did not help.

Any ideas how to fix are welcome.  I have also attached a copy of the log file for this procedure.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks,

Ray