You'll find it used for transcoding, simple editing, video scaling, video post-production effects and standards compliance. It is command-line based and lets you handle video, audio, multimedia files, and streams. It's an opensource software project for working with audio and video. You may even have heard of it before you know exactly what it does, but it's used everywhere in video projects. If you work with video, you've heard of ffmpeg.

The guide is to help ease you into using ffmpeg by explaining some basics about how scripts are structured, provide resources that will help you, walk you through some popular commands, and describe some common pitfalls you might encounter. If the sections for Mac and then Python don't apply to you, you may need to supplement this beginner's primer with other online content. Right now i am trying to tinker the code with options i am looking from online documents, there might be totally unnecessary options i am using.Before we dive in, this beginner's manual will contain some general purpose information and then some information that's specific to Mac users and Python users.įfmpeg is an amazing set of tools, but it's also available in a variety of flavors. Like i said i am a total newbie on streaming but looking as a programmer i think this method should work. When the stream is started i will start sending loading.mp4 to that pipe and when i recieve rtmpdump data i will stop it and send rtmpdump, when rtmpdump fails i will start sending loading.mp4 data instantly so basically there will be no down time on the stream, at least i hope there wont be. I am a totaly newbie on ffmpeg and streaming so if you know a better way please tell me but what i think about doing is creating a named pipe where main ffmpeg constantly listens and sends data to nginx. I am looking for a way to make this fully continuous so end users dont get disconnected.

During that time ffmpeg stops sending data to nginx so end users stream cuts with error. This rtmpdump sometimes fails mid stream and need to be restarted which i do automatically but that takes about 10-15 seconds. I dont know if someone here can help me but this forum keeps popping up on google search results, so fingers crossed Right now i am taking a live stream with rtmpdump and sending it to ffmpeg than nginx to serve as m3u8.

Ffmpeg options for recieving stream