Beholder is a RTMP dumping and archiving tool for multi-channel CCTV.

Beholder is written in Python, so Python is obviously needed.

Also some Python libraries are required: APScheduler and PySQLPool which can be installed with pip, easy_install or with provided install_dependcies shell script.

Beholder invokes binaries of modified rtmpdump and yamdi for dumping RTMP streams and metadata injection respectively. Paths to these binaries are specified in behold.conf file.

Beholder stores it's data in the MySQL database which credentials are also specified in behold.conf file. Schema for target database provided in schema.sql file.

Beholder acts as execution daemon for multiple rtmpdump and sequential yamdi processes. When started, it demonizes and schedules invocation fo these processes for each stream specified in the cam table of target database. For each 10 minutes it'll finish dumping to file, initiates the metadata injection and open a new dumping process for each stream. Resulting files are overlapped for 10 (can be changed in behold.conf) seconds. Status of each file is stored to the rec table of target database.

Proved as workable by 1.5+ year of operation in production environment with 8 cameras. Sources are not touched since developed in march 2011.

Copyright (c) 2011,2012 Ilia Zhirov.

Licensed under terms of MIT license.

Feel free to fork it, fix any bugs, add features, send me a pull requests and so on. Bug reports are also welcome