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• Transcoding fMP4 to HLS while writing on iOS using FFmpeg

  12 juillet 2017, par bclymer

  TL ;DR

  I want to convert fMP4 fragments to TS segments (for HLS) as the fragments are being written using FFmpeg on an iOS device.

  Why ?

  I’m trying to achieve live uploading on iOS while maintaining a seamless, HD copy locally.

  What I’ve tried

  1. Rolling AVAssetWriters where each writes for 8 seconds, then concatenating the MP4s together via FFmpeg.

     What went wrong - There are blips in the audio and video at times. I’ve identified 3 reasons for this.

     1) Priming frames for audio written by the AAC encoder creating gaps.

     2) Since video frames are 33.33ms long, and audio frames 0.022ms long, it’s possible for them to not line up at the end of a file.

     3) The lack of frame accurate encoding present on Mac OS, but not available for iOS Details Here

  2. FFmpeg muxing a large video only MP4 file with raw audio into TS segments. The work was based on the Kickflip SDK

     What Went Wrong - Every once in a while an audio only file would get uploaded, with no video whatsoever. Never able to reproduce it in-house, but it was pretty upsetting to our users when they didn’t record what they thought they did. There were also issues with accurate seeking on the final segments, almost like the TS segments were incorrectly time stamped.

  What I’m thinking now

  Apple was pushing fMP4 at WWDC this year (2016) and I hadn’t looked into it much at all before that. Since an fMP4 file can be read, and played while it’s being written, I thought that it would be possible for FFmpeg to transcode the file as it’s being written as well, as long as we hold off sending the bytes to FFmpeg until each fragment within the file is finished.

  However, I’m not familiar enough with the FFmpeg C API, I only used it briefly within attempt #2.

  What I need from you

  1. Is this a feasible solution ? Is anybody familiar enough with fMP4 to know if I can actually accomplish this ?
  2. How will I know that AVFoundation has finished writing a fragment within the file so that I can pipe it into FFmpeg ?
  3. How can I take data from a file on disk, chunk at a time, pass it into FFmpeg and have it spit out TS segments ?

• Transcoding fMP4 to HLS while writing on iOS using FFmpeg

  29 avril 2017, par bclymer

  TL ;DR

  I want to convert fMP4 fragments to TS segments (for HLS) as the fragments are being written using FFmpeg on an iOS device.

  Why ?

  I’m trying to achieve live uploading on iOS while maintaining a seamless, HD copy locally.

  What I’ve tried

  1. Rolling AVAssetWriters where each writes for 8 seconds, then concating the MP4s together via FFmpeg.

     What went wrong - There are blips in the audio and video at times. I’ve identified 3 reasons for this.

     1) Priming frames for audio written by the AAC encoder creating gaps.

     2) Since video frames are 33.33ms long, and audio frames 0.022ms long, it’s possible for them to not line up at the end of a file.

     3) The lack of frame accurate encoding present on Mac OS, but not available for iOS Details Here

  2. FFmpeg muxing a large video only MP4 file with raw audio into TS segments. The work was based off the Kickflip SDK

     What Went Wrong - Every once in a while an audio only file would get uploaded, with no video whatsoever. Never able to reproduce it in-house, but it was pretty upsetting to our users when they didn’t record what they thought they did. There were also issues with accurate seeking on the final segments, almost like the TS segments were incorrectly time stamped.

  What I’m thinking now

  Apple was pushing fMP4 at WWDC this year (2016) and I hadn’t looked into it much at all before that. Since an fMP4 file can be read, and played while it’s being written, I thought that it would be possible for FFmpeg to transcode the file as it’s being written as well, as long as we hold off sending the bytes to FFmpeg until each fragment within the file is finished.

  However, I’m not familiar enough with the FFmpeg C API, I only used it briefly within attempt #2.

  What I need from you

  1. Is this a feasible solution ? Is anybody familiar enough with fMP4 to know if I can actually accomplish this ?
  2. How will I know that AVFoundation has finished writing a fragment within the file so that I can pipe it into FFmpeg ?
  3. How can I take data from a file on disk, chunk at a time, pass it into FFmpeg and have it spit out TS segments ?

• avformat/aviobuf : fix flushing write buffers after seeking backward or forward

  3 juin 2017, par Marton Balint

  avformat/aviobuf : fix flushing write buffers after seeking backward or forward
  This patch makes aviobuf work more like traditinal file IO, which is how people
  
  think about it.
  For example, in the past, aviobuf only flushed buffers until the current buffer
  
  position, even if more data was written to it previously, and a backward seek
  
  was used to reposition the IO context.
  From now, aviobuf will keep track of the written data, so no explicit seek will
  
  be required till the end of the buffer, or till the end of file before flushing.
  This fixes at least one regression, fate-vsynth3-flv was broken if
  
  flush_packets option was set to false, an explicit seek was removed in
  
  4e3cc4bdd8acedbcc703607ed0efbb64bb5c3cc4.
  Also from now on, if a forward seek in the write buffer were to cause a gap
  
  between the already written data and the new file position, a flush will
  
  happen.
  The must_flush varable is also removed, which might have caused needless
  
  flushes with multiple seeks whithin the write buffer. Since we know the amount
  
  of data written to it, we will know when to flush.
  Signed-off-by : Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
  

  • [DH] libavformat/avio.h
  • [DH] libavformat/aviobuf.c
  • [DH] libavformat/version.h