[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg doesn't accept named pipes?

Xidorn Quan quanxunzhen at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 17:44:58 CET 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Ritu choudhary <ritu.itzme at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I am trying to provide input as named pipe to ffmpeg(version 1.1.3) but
> there seems some problem in pipe input in case of ffmpeg.
> I am using the following command:
>
> ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 -i record.ssa -scodec ass foo.mkv
>
> here, record.ssa is a named pipe (mkfifo record.ssa) and some other
> application is continuously writing to this named pipe.
> ffmpeg hangs till the application is writing to the pipe and until the
> application is not stopped ,ffmpeg doesn't resume.

The content might be cached by C library. You may want to call flush()
regularly to force clearing the cache, or shrink the size of writing cache.

>
> Please, correct me if  I am wrong at the concept of pipes in ffmpeg but as
> i read in the documentation, ffmpeg can accept input in form of pipes also.
>
> Any suggestion , help will be useful.


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