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• Download Partial Video via HTTP (for Remote Thumbnailing)

  13 February 2012, by HuntedC

  I have videos hosted on Amazon S3. I encode them with Zencoder and store a thumbnail for the video then using Zencoder. However, I need a way to generate thumbnails at certain points in the video (i.e. 00:00:03, 00:10:32, 01:40:18) and store them either on S3 or my server.

  ffmpeg allows remote thumbnailing, however it takes a very long time (sometimes several minutes) to get a thumbnail from the middle of a file—I believe this is because it downloads the entire file up to that point to get the thumbnail.

  My plan is to somehow download the header of the video file via HTTP byte-range request, guesstimate the byte range where I should be looking for the thumbnail, download about a second of video from that part of the file via HTTP byte-range request, then save the header and tiny video locally. I pull the thumbnail from that using ffmpeg and delete the temporary video.

  I have no idea on how exactly this would work (I believe the H.264 MP4 files I'm working with have a dynamic length header, for another issue). Any suggestions or better ideas?

  Edit: To clarify, Zencoder thumbnailing is great, but they only allow thumbnail creation in combination with transcoding. I don't want to transcode my video every time I create a new thumbnail, so I need to do this on my own without Zencoder.

• Facebook LIVE with ffmpeg error - av_interleaved_write_frame(): Connection reset by peer

  22 December 2016, by above14

  I’m trying to stream to Facebook a Live Video from an Amazon EC2 instance (c4.xlarge). I installed ffmpeg and stream with a command like the following

  ffmpeg -re -f concat -i /home/ec2-user/playlist.txt -f lavfi -re -i anullsrc=channel_layout=stereo:sample_rate=44100 -s 854x480 -c:a aac -strict -2 -ar 44100 -vcodec libx264 -f flv "{rtmp_link}"

  Everything works fine. I had LIVE videos that worked for up to 2 days in a row. Sometimes, without a reason, I got one of these videos interrupted with this error message:

   av_interleaved_write_frame(): Connection reset by peer

  I haven’t been able to figure out a reason for this error yet. The funny thing is that maybe I have 3 streaming going on in the same machine at the same time, and just one of them get stopped by this message. Other times this error happens where there’s just one streaming on the EC2 instance.

  Any ideas about how to find a solution?

  EDIT

  We have installed a newer version of FFMPEG and the error now is more detailed. We have this message

   RTMP send error 104

  I haven’t found a lot about this issue online. Does someone know what error 104 means?

• How to "extend" aws docker base image (.net core from scratch) by ... libs/ubuntu/ffmpeg?

  26 April 2022, by Nigrimmist

  i would like to use AWS Lambda through the image containers using .net core 3.1 and it is works fine for me in simplest code case. But i stucked with next scenario :

  


  By default, aws provide base image with .net core with aws libs based on "from scratch". So as i know, it minimal Linux that does not contains even package manager.

  


  I need to work with ffmpeg in the code, but to do it i need to install few packages and ... fmpeg. I have working code on image

  


  FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/runtime:3.1-bionic


  


  It is ubuntu with .net core runtime. But what is the right strategic in case of AWS Lambda image? How can i ... merge them?.

  


  Have few ideas, but not sure :

  


  

  1. use as is FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/dotnet:core3.1 and try to install package manager, all depenendencies to use ffmpeg and so on?

  


  2. Use mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/runtime:3.1-bionic, somehow add required by amazon dependencies (how? download content and attach from local?) and configure it to run in Lambda runtime?

  


  3. ... ?

  


  


  Will be glad to hear where is the solution here. Thanks!