Is FFMPEG required to route traffic through gluetun/vpn?

[vdrover]

I am using streammaster with gluetun as the VPN. When using the default command profile (i.e. not using FFMPEG), is the network traffic using the VPN connection once playback begins? If I stop the gluetun container during playback, indeed playback stops.

Comparatively, if repeating with threadfin instead of streammaster, stopping the gluetun container once playback starts has no effect. Threadfin very cleary prints in the logs "Threading is no longer involved", once playback begins. FFMPEG is required in threadfin if one wants to proxy all traffic via gluetun/vpn.

So it seems like SM is proxying the traffic even if not using FFMPEG.

Would love to get developer confirmation on this.

[carlreid]

The command profiles are documented here: https://carlreid.github.io/StreamMaster/CommandProfiles/. Where the "Default" one essentially performs an initial HTTP request from StreamMaster internally to get the source Stream, and then this Stream is buffered internally as data is consumed.

Meaning that any networking configuration imposed on StreamMaster would be out of control/transparent to StreamMaster.

[vdrover]

@carlreid That tracks with the results of my testing. In otherwords: the SM buffer uses whatever network service is available to it's docker container.