Livestream Problems: Choppy Videos, keys stop working, stream keeps ending

PeerTube
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What could be the cause of these (probably unrelated) problems:

  1. Livestream ends after a day or so

I checked the « Maximum livestream duration » settings in admin, and it is unlimited, so I don’t know why that happened. Might updating a plugin cause it?

  1. Choppy Video
    I am not sure if they mean buffering problems, but this streamer streams all day long. Maybe that has something to do with it.

  2. Keys stop working
    For some reason, they had to keep regenerating livestream keys, as their existing ones would cease to work.

2

Livestream ends after a day or so

Please paste debug logs when you stream ends

Choppy Video

We need more details about that

Keys stop working

Do they use a « permanent » live stream? If yes, what is your peertube version?

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3

I’m having the same kind of issues with a couple of permanent live streams. The stream keys, while working before, stop working after some time. When I make a new stream and update the camera stream keys, they are working again.

Debug logs can be seen in the link below.
Here you can see the "Unknown live stream with stream key: **

Just updated Peertube to 6.3.3

Could you please help me out? Thanks a lot!

4

Still having these issues, mainly of the permanent stream keys that stop working. Could anyone help me out?
The streams start out fine, but after a while the logs say: unknown live video with key: *****, here are the debug logs for this moment.
It happens with several permanent live streams.

debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding local viewer to video viewers counter 0ca80e84-3bff-4ba5-8bbe-1c885652bf53.
{
  "tags": [
    "views",
    "0ca80e84-3bff-4ba5-8bbe-1c885652bf53"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding local view to video 0ca80e84-3bff-4ba5-8bbe-1c885652bf53.
{
  "watchTime": 3279,
  "tags": [
    "views",
    "0ca80e84-3bff-4ba5-8bbe-1c885652bf53"
  ]
}
info[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] 84.26.57.145 - - [06/Jan/2025:09:15:51 +0000] "POST /api/v1/videos/0ca80e84-3bff-4ba5-8bbe-1c885652bf53/views HTTP/1.0" 204 - "https://app.demixthuis.nl/w/2yDvFmq5cXi3Ck4GJdz65g" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/27.0 Chrome/125.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36"
{
  "tags": [
    "http"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live add handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/1-000053.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/1-000052.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live add handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/2-000053.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live add handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/3-000053.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/2-000052.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/3-000052.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live add handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/0-000053.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Adding live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/0-000052.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live delete handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/1-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Removing live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/1-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live delete handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/2-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Removing live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/2-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live delete handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/3-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Removing live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/3-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Live delete handler of TS file /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/0-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "OFGOVB3Q",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Removing live sha segment /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/0-000037.ts.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:51] Writing segment sha JSON /var/www/peertube/storage/streaming-playlists/hls/76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507/segments-sha256.json of 76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507 on disk.
{
  "tags": [
    "live",
    "76389860-04dd-49e5-9e32-d624628ce507"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:52] Checking POST - /api/v1/videos/fd775a98-79d3-4e50-a1f2-b3c7627f61b9/views parameters
{
  "body": {
    "currentTime": 67,
    "sessionId": "CK8dvLr3oPrfvhenpO8HOEUlZQnCF9YL"
  },
  "params": {
    "videoId": "fd775a98-79d3-4e50-a1f2-b3c7627f61b9"
  },
  "query": {},
  "tags": [
    "views"
  ]
}
debug[6-1-2025, 10:15:52] Model cache hit for load-video-immutable-id -> fd775a98-79d3-4e50-a1f2-b3c7627f61b9.
5

What is your peertube version?

6

Hey Chocobozzz, thanks for the reply! I’m on 7.0.0, but had the same issues on 6.3.3 and before

7

Just upgraded to 7.0.1