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• FFMPEG : RTSP to HLS restream stops with "No more output streams to write to, finishing."

  1er juin 2022, par Tim W

  I'm trying to do a live restream an RTSP feed from a webcam using ffmpeg, but the stream repeatedly stops with the error :

  



  "No more output streams to write to, finishing."

  



  The problem seems to get worse at higher bitrates (256kbps is mostly reliable) and is pretty random in its occurrence. At 1mbps, sometimes the stream will run for several hours without any trouble, on other occasions the stream will fail every few minutes. I've got a cron job running which restarts the stream automatically when it fails, but I would prefer to avoid the continued interruptions.

  



  I have seen this problem reported in a handful of other forums, so this is not a unique problem, but not one of those reports had a solution attached to it. My ffmpeg command looks like this :

  



  ffmpeg -loglevel verbose -r 25 -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp ://user:password@camera.url/live/ch0 -reset_timestamps 1 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov -bufsize 7168k -stimeout 60000 -hls_flags temp_file -hls_time 5 -hls_wrap 180 -acodec copy -vcodec copy streaming.m3u8 > encode.log 2>&1

  



  What gets me is that the error makes no sense, this is a live stream so output is always wanted until I shut off the stream. So having it shut down because output isn't wanted is downright odd. If ffmpeg was complaining because of a problem with input it would make more sense.

  



  I'm running version 3.3.4, which I believe is the latest.

  



  Update 13 Oct 17 :

  



  After extensive testing I've established that "No more outputs" error message generated by FFMPEG is very misleading. The error seems to be generated if the data coming in from RTSP is delayed, eg by other activity on the router the camera is connected via. I've got a large buffer and timeout set which should be sufficient for 60 seconds, but I can still deliberately trigger this error with far shorter interruptions, so clearly the buffer and timeout aren't having the desired effect. This might be fixed by setting a QOS policy on the router and by checking that the TCP packets from the camera have a suitably high priority set, it's possible this isn't the case.

  



  However, I would still like to improve the robustness of the input stream if it is briefly interrupted. Is there any way to persuade FFMPEG to tolerate this or to actually make use of the buffer it seems to be ignoring ? Can FFMPEG be persuaded to simply stop writing output and wait for input to become available rather than bailing out ? Or could I get FFMPEG to duplicate the last complete frame until it's able to get more data ? I can live with the stream stuttering a bit, but I've got to significantly reduce the current behaviour where the stream drops at the slightest hint of a problem.

  



  Further update 13 Oct 2017 :

  



  After more tests, I've found that the problem actually seems to be that HLS is incapable of coping with a discontinuity in the incoming video stream. If I deliberately cut the network connection between the camera and FFMPEG, FFMPEG will wait for the connection to be re-established for quite a long time. If the interruption was long (>10 seconds) the stream will immediately drop with the "No More Outputs" error the instant that the connection is re-established. If the interruption is short, then RTSP will actually start pulling data from the camera again, but the stream will then drop with the same error a few seconds later. So it seems clear that the gap in the input data is causing the HLS encoder to have a fit and give up once the stream is resumed, but the size of the gap has an impact on whether the drop is instant or not.

  


• Community survey revealed – Discover the profile of a Piwik user

  7 novembre 2017, par Piwik Core Team — Community

  In January 2017 we launched a Piwik community survey which gathered more than a thousand responses. It is now time for us to release the results of this study. We release today the results of this survey painting a picture of the growing Piwik Analytics community !

  What types of businesses are using Piwik ?

  Just a reminder : Piwik is currently used on over 1 million websites and mobile apps.

  

  According to the community survey, 75% of businesses using Piwik are small companies and 25% are medium to large enterprises. Out of those 25%, more than 7% are large enterprises with more than a 1,000 of employees.

  Why choosing Piwik ?

  With a large majority, Open Source came first with almost 50% of the answers, then come the data security aspect (27%) in third comes the raw data access (10,5%) and for a minor part customizability with 1,9%.

  How often is Piwik used ?

  92% of respondents said that they are using Piwik regularly (at least once per month) :

  • on a daily basis 28%
  • on a weekly basis 41%
  • on a monthly basis 23%

  Is Piwik mostly installed on Intranet or External websites ?

  

  Piwik is mainly installed on external websites, 80% of the cases. However, 12% of respondents answer that they are using it on intranet too. The remaining 8% have chosen not to answer.

  Which CRM for Piwik users ?

  As CRM is a high valuable asset within the company, we wanted to check if there were any needs for Piwik to develop something specifically for CRM.
  The answers showed us that in almost 60% of the cases no CRM was used at all, for the rest there is no clear leading CRM which is used more than others.

  Do Piwik users wish more integrations to third party applications such as CRM, support systems ?

  60% of responders said no, which can clearly be understood from previous question. But the 40% remaining are clearly showing that they wish more integrations. We heard you, we are constantly updating our integration page. If there are any integrations you wish to have, do not hesitate to contact the solution provider and suggest them to integrate their product with Piwik.

  How do Piwik users get notified when a KPI reach a specific value ?

  Great question, great answers. Almost 50% of responders are not notified when something happens in Piwik and prefer to have a look at the UI instead. 15% did not know that it was possible using Custom Alerts but may have a look it. Some of you are also designing their own system. It made us realize here that we need to change our UI and integrate custom alerts to the main UI directly. Custom alerts is a great feature that you can access within the administration panel to get notified when something happened in your Piwik data.

  

  Which improvements could be made to Piwik ?

  Only 20% of you answered to this question, which is a good thing for us

• Piwik SSO options and why is it useful ?

  8 novembre 2017, par Piwik Core Team — Plugins

  Bored with typing again and again different logins and passwords for each service you have access to ? Would you like to add hundreds or thousands of users with different roles to your Piwik at once ? Would you like to save time and effort of managing your users while increasing the security in your business ? Guess what, Piwik has come up with great features to do just that.

  But what is a SSO ?

  Before introducing you to new Piwik features, let me explain what a SSO is.
  SSO is the acronym for Single Sign On. As its name suggests this authentication process allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials.

  Advantages of using a SSO are numerous :

  • improving security, for example when an employee is leaving your company, how can you check that all his credentials have been removed ?
  • reducing employees time-wasters such as having to enter logins/passwords each time.
  • providing a centralized database for administrators. They can then easily manage permissions of all employees saving them heaps of time.
  • reduces support costs related to authentication / accounts management.

  In order to provide SSO options, two Piwik plugins have been developed and are available on the marketplace :

  • SAML
  • LDAP

  SAML

  

  SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language”, it is a standard in order to exchange authentication and authorization between an identity provider (OneLogin, Okta, Ping Identity, ADFS, Google, Salesforce, SharePoint…) and a service provider.
  An identity provider is an online service that authenticates users on the Internet by using security tokens.

  Are you wondering if your business or organization is using any of these providers ? We recommend to ask your operations team or sysadmin.

  At InnoCraft, we developed a plugin in order to allow SSO with SAML for Piwik. It can ensure consistent access control across the enterprise and external providers, potentially reducing support costs related to authentication and accounts management.

  The installation process is straightforward. All you need is to get the SAML premium feature from the marketplace. Once installed, you will access the SAML configuration interface through the admin where you can configure various settings :

  • SAML Status
  • Identity Provider (Entity ID, SSO endpoint info, Public x509 certificate)
  • Just-in-time provisioning and Mapping attributes
  • Access Synchronization
  • Advanced settings

  

  From there you will need to follow our detailed documentation to have it up and running :
  https://piwik.org/docs/login-saml/.
  Once finished, you will then be able to use SAML to authenticate to your Piwik account :

  

  As all premium features, SAML is eligible to a 30-day period money back guarantee, so do not hesitate to have it a try.

  LDAP

  

  LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. As its names implies LDAP is a directory, hosted on a server, which organizes the data about people in your company.
  Thanks to the LDAP plugin, Piwik can be connected to your LDAP infrastructure and then use all its power in order to give each individual an access with different rights according to their needs.

  Let’s say that you have 1,000 employees within a company and they all need right now an access to the analytics reports in Piwik with different roles. This is what LDAP can do.

  Moreover if your business or organization is already using LDAP, we recommend using the LDAP connector for Piwik for better security, to stop wasting time of your users and sysadmins, and to reduce the costs related to account management.

  You understood it well. LDAP is a plugin which saves a LOT of time within an organization. Here is a preview of the settings part :

  

  LDAP has been developed by the Piwik core team and is available as a Free plugin on the marketplace.

  Try it now within the marketplace

  If you are surprised by the possibilities that Piwik is offering in terms of plugins, the good news is that many other plugins are waiting for you on the marketplace. Check out our premium marketplace which offers state-of-the-art plugins to get the most out of Piwik.

  And if you are a developer feel free to create your own plugin, a detailed documentation is available at : https://developer.piwik.org/guides/getting-started-part-1.