RISTRECEIVER(1)

💖 RISTRECEIVER(1) 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

ristreceiver — receive a stream via RIST 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ristreceiver [OPTIONS]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like. Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is a transport protocol designed specifically for reliable transmission of video over lossy networks (yes, including the Internet 😭) with low latency and high quality. it's the whole vibe.

and ristreceiver? it receives a RIST stream and relays the contents to an UDP or RTP stream. that's the job. that's the whole main character moment. 👑

🧚 Where OPTIONS are:

• -i, --inputurl rist://... — Mandatory Option, no skips: a comma separated list of input rist URLs.
• -o, --outputurl udp://... or rtp://... — Mandatory Option: a comma separated list of output udp or rtp URLs. lowkey important: use tun://@ to write udp data to a tun device defined using the -t option. 🔥
• --cbr-output 0|1 — spaces the output at the stream rate. for the CBR consumers out there, we see you 🫶
• -b, --buffer value — the default buffer size for packet retransmissions.
• -s, --secret PWD — the default pre-shared encryption secret 🤫
• -e, --encryption-type TYPE — the default Encryption type: 0, 128 = AES-128, 256 = AES-256.
• -p, --profile number — the Rist profile: 0 = simple, 1 = main, 2 = advanced.
• -S, --statsinterval value (ms) — the interval at which stats get printed. set it to 0 to disable. ngl the stats are kinda iconic ✨
• -c, --config name.yaml — a YAML config file.
• -v, --verbose-level value — to disable logging: -1. log levels match syslog levels.
• -r, --remote-logging IP:PORT — send logs and stats to this IP:PORT using udp messages.
• -F, --srpfile filepath — when in listening mode, use this file to hold the list of usernames and passwords to validate against. use the ristsrppasswd tool to create the line entries. 🔐
• -t, --tun name — create a tun device and use it for data communications.
• -m, --tun-mode number — data management on the tun interface: 0 = all tun data is accepted into or out of oob channel, 1 = only non udp data is accepted (default), 2 = no data goes into or out of oob channel.
• -M, --enable-metrics — enable OpenMetrics/Prometheus compatible metrics 📊
• --metrics-tags — additional tags to add to the metrics.
• --metrics-multipoint — metrics return multiple timestamped data points.
• --metrics-nocreated — metrics skip the created metric for Prometheus compat.
• --metrics-http — start HTTP Server to expose metrics on, defaults to http://0.0.0.0:9100/metrics.
• --metrics-port — port for metrics HTTP server to listen on.
• --metrics-ip — IP for metrics HTTP server to listen on.
• --metrics-unix — unix socket to expose metrics on.
• -f, --noflow-timeout-exit value (ms) — exit on no flow after Timeout. it literally says "if nothing is happening, we're out" 💀
• -h, --help — show this help.
• -u, --help-url — show all the possible url options.

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⭐ Default values: ⭐

• --profile 1
• --statsinterval 1000
• --verbose-level 6

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

ristsender(1), ristsrppasswd(1), and https://code.videolan.org/rist/librist/-/wikis/LibRIST%20Documentation — go read the wiki bestie, it's right there 🌈

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). absolute icon behaviour, we love to see it 💜

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and that's the whole page fr fr ✨ this one's running ristreceiver version: 30 libRIS... and it's dated April 2026, so like — note the version and date, hydrate, and slay 💅🌺