ffmpeg and nginx - restream with audio reencoding - nginx

I use nginx and ffmpeg to restream video from my provider. Previously I use ffmpeg with arguments where I reencoding video and reencoding audio, because my server is to slow I resigned from reencoding.
So now, I use that command :
ffmpeg -re -i http://link.somelink.com:6565/21d12d1/17233 -map 0 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -f flv -flvflags no_duration_filesize rtmp://test_ip/canal/stream
This works only when my provider streaming with aac audio codec, but sometimes my provider change audio codec to ac3. And then this doesn't work. I try something like this :
ffmpeg -thread_queue_size 32768 -re -i http://link.somelink.com:6565/21d12d1/17233 -c:v copy -c:a aac -f flv -flvflags no_duration_filesize rtmp://test_ip/canal/stream
And it all looks like it's all right in console with ffmpeg, but my restreaming video doesn't work. Ngnix throws 304 exception sometime.
Any suggestions?
Please help,
It's very important for me...

Ac3 is not in supported codecs list. You should encode your stream accordingly.
RTMP supports only a limited number of codecs. The most popular RTMP video codecs are H264, Sorenson-H263 (aka flv) and audio codecs AAC, MP3, Nellymoser, Speex. If your video is encoded with these codecs (the most common pair is H264/AAC) then you do not need any conversion. Otherwise you need to convert video to one of supported codecs.
https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/wiki/Getting-started-with-nginx-rtmp

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I suppose that i need to send the stream to an endpoint like /stream/:stream-key/:next-server-ip process the stream with ffmpeg and then send it to the :next-server-ip, what language should I use in the backend for this?
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application src {
live on;
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}
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(I have tried avi, mpeg and h264, but no success.)
Currently, I am running following command -
ffmpeg -re -i video.mp4 -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 -i audio.wav -c copy -f flv rtmp://192.168.0.1:1935/myapp/stream
The issues with -f flv in my case are -
It doesn't support 48k sample rate.
None of my input videos are in flv format (I have to convert it to flv externally).
P.S. - I am using VLC as RTMP player.
EDIT -
I am getting following error with 48k audio file -
[flv # 0x5650ba7afb80] FLV does not support sample rate 48000, choose from (44100, 22050, 11025)

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It's not working, however (I have it placed in the application section of the RTMP module).
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rtmp {
server {
listen 1935;
application big {
live on;
exec ffmpeg -re -i rtmp://localhost:1935/$app/$name -vcodec
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Thank you.
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You are not using the module properly,
1) On iOS you need to point your browser to http://localhost:80/hls/${name} to get the HLS stream.
2) You are missing in the config the http section to generate the HLS stream
See here for details: How can we transcode live rtmp stream to live hls stream using ffmpeg?

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