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• FFMPEG scaling video disable viewing it in HTML player while process is not ended, for video transcoding on the fly

  6 juillet 2022, par Lucas F

  Good day all,

  


  I'm working on a video player with 1080p original video files, and I would like to change their resolution on the fly :

  


  Actually I host all my original video files under a web mp4 1080p format, and I would like to be able to offer 720p, 480p, etc ... qualities.

  


  So I started to look for tutorials about video transcoding on the fly and I found the FFMPEG tool.

  


  I'm actually using the following command to scale videos - to 720p for e.g. :

  


  ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-1:720 output.mp4


  


  The problem is, once FFMPEG starts scaling it, I have to wait the end of the process before being able to play the video. Do you know if there is any parameter for this command to allow playing the video while it's under scaling ?

  


  Or any workaround that can help me doing this ?

  


  Thank you in advance for your help !

  


  EDIT - To allow fragmented video metas

  


  Now I found how to access readable content while transcoding (by transcoding to fragmented MP4) :

  


  ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-2:720 -movflags +frag_keyframe+separate_moof+omit_tfhd_offset+empty_moov output.mp4


  


  But my problem is when opening the video it comes as an "ended" video of the current transcoded data.

  


  So if video lasts 1min and is half transcoded, I'll see only 30s, it will not load more data, once the rest is transcoded.

  


  EDIT - To play entire video while transcoding

  


  I found the following solution that creates a streaming flow througout RTMP protocol :

  


  ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=-2:720 -movflags +frag_keyframe+separate_moof+omit_tfhd_offset+empty_moov output.mp4 -listen 1 -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1:10000/test-stream


  


  My only problem, is that it's not supported into the HTML5 video player, so I tried to convert the RTMP stream to HTTP with the following command :

  


  ffmpeg -v verbose -i rtmp://127.0.0.1:10000/test-stream -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -ac 1 -strict -2 -crf 18 -profile:v baseline -maxrate 400k -bufsize 1835k -pix_fmt yuv420p -flags -global_header -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 6 -start_number 1 C:\www\test-stream.m3u8


  


  But this is only supported on Apple devices, any idea about how to read this .m3u8 on all other devices ?

  


• How to read a video stream(H.264) bitrate via ffprobe if the video is VBR

  26 janvier 2021, par Sean
  

  1. if the video stream is VBR, which means the bitrate is variable, so how to read the bitrate via ffprobe ?

  


  2. How to get know the video stream is CBR or VBR ?

  


  


• How to replace a snippet in a video without reencoding the whole video

  3 novembre 2022, par Simon Streicher

  I am trying to edit and replace a section of a video without reencoding the whole video.
Here are the steps I think I need to take :

  


  1. Find keyframes

  


  input :

  


  ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -skip_frame nokey -show_entries frame=pkt_pts_time -of csv=p=0 'example.mkv'


  


  output :

  


  0.000000
1.001000
11.011000
13.430000
20.812000
30.822000
40.832000
50.842000
⋮


  


  2. Export relevant section

  


  For example, export the snippet 40.832000 → 50.842000.

  


  3. Edit and reencode

  


  After editing that section, I need to reencode it to the original codecs for compatibility with the surrounding video. For example, this is the original codecs :

  


  Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), 3840x1600 [SAR 1:1 DAR 12:5], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default)


  


  4. Inject edit back into the video stream

  


  Finally, I need to use FFmpeg somehow to retain everything from the original file (audio, subtitles, chapters, etc.) and to construct a new video stream (for example, Stream #0:0) that is exactly 0 → 40.832000 of the original, the whole edited section, and 50.842000 → end of the original section.

  


  My main questions are :

  


  

  • A. How do I trim the video stream in 2. without reencoding ?

  


  • B. Assuming that the edited video's resolution will remain the same, what is the command for FFmpeg to encode my edit to the codecs in 3. (and would the video be concatenable with the original video) ?

  


  • C. How should I go about glueing the sections together ? Should I simply trim Stream #0:0 into sections v1 = 0 → 40.832 and v2 = 50.842 → end and then concatenate a new stream as new = v1 + edited + v2 ?

  


  • D. How do I replace Stream #0:0 with new ?

  


  


  And probably the most important question : are my assumptions correct and can this be achieved ?