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• Using ffmpeg to build a streaming server to stream static media files (broadcast behaviour)

  15 February 2018, by MiDaa

  I’ve read some online articles and SO questions, most of them are about streaming MY video to SERVER like youtube or switch.

  This is about a project of interest, here are what it should do.

  • Work on a Linux server
  • Serve media(preferably multiple format like mp4 mkv) files to client through rtp protocol maybe?
  • Server could set a specific time to start the streaming or end it
  • Server could pause and resume the streaming(?)
  • Multiple clients connect and play the stream at same time(sounds like a basic feature)

  After some research, I found that ffmpeg is a great open-source candidate for such a project but as a newbie in this area, I’m having a tough time understanding how this whole thing work.

  As this(ffmpeg doc) states, it looks like just a one liner command. But I don’t find anything fit my feature listed above.

  Can ffmpeg be used to achieve those? If not appriciate any suggesstion on where I should be looking at.

  EDIT:

  • Target devices: iPad,iPhone, Android phones should be able to watch the stream using a web browser(assume a modern browser)

• Create and update HLS playlist programmatically

  26 February 2018, by Pierre P.

  I have a C++ application that records audio from my default input device, encodes it in AAC format and writes to a .aac file. I want to use HTTP Live Streaming to live stream this AAC file. According to this question, I have to create a FFMPEG script to split my audio file into several .ts files.

  # bitrate, width, and height, you may want to change this
  
  BR=512k
  
  WIDTH=432
  
  HEIGHT=240
  
  input=${1}
  
  
  
  # strip off the file extension
  
  output=$(echo ${input} | sed 's/\..*//' )
  
  
  
  # works for most videos
  
  ffmpeg -y -i ${input} -f mpegts -acodec libmp3lame -ar 48000 -ab 64k -s ${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT} -vcodec libx264 -b ${BR} -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 7 -trellis 0 -refs 0 -coder 0 -me_range 16 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -bt 200k -maxrate ${BR} -bufsize ${BR} -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 30 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -level 30 -aspect ${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT} -g 30 -async 2 ${output}-iphone.ts

  (It is slightly different in my case because I only work with audio)

  Can I do so programmatically in C++ and if so, do I have to use a third-part library or does macOS provide native functions to do so ?

• Stream .mov to .flv with ffmpeg

  30 March 2018, by Wise Colt

  When I run the following code, the flv file is being created. But it does not play. (File size 0 kB)

  var ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');
  
  var fs = require('fs');
  
  
  
  var write = fs.createWriteStream('output.flv');
  
  var stream = fs.createReadStream('video.mov');
  
  
  
  ffmpeg(stream).format('flv').pipe(write, {end: true});

  It works when I change the code like this:

  var ffmpeg = require('fluent-ffmpeg');
  
  var fs = require('fs');
  
  
  
  var write = fs.createWriteStream('output.flv');
  
  
  
  ffmpeg('video.mov').format('flv').pipe(write, {end: true});

  I’m looking for a way to convert a .mov file to a .flv file using ffmpeg and createReadStream. Support.

  Notes: .mov files created with iPhone / iPad