[FFmpeg-user] How can I expose an rtsp stream using ffmpeg

[Agniva De Sarker]

Thanks. But I was wondering what is the idiomatic way to expose an rtsp
stream using ffmpeg. Does that mean we cannot do rtsp streaming using pure
ffmpeg at all ?

-Agniva

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 17:55 Harshil Makwana <harshil.makwana1991 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Agniva,
>
> To use rtsp stream inside ffmpeg you need to run ffserver which is removed
> in latest version, but here I have created separate repo which can be used
> as rtsp stream,
>
> https://github.com/harshil1991/ffserver
>
> and just you need to pass your AVpacket in place of av read frame function.
>
> Thanks
> Harshil
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 10-Dec-2018, at 2:41 PM, Agniva De Sarker <
> agniva.quicksilver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wanted to follow up on this again. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:24 PM Agniva De Sarker <
> > agniva.quicksilver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I tried with a simple mp4 file.
> >>
> >> ffmpeg -i timescape.mp4 -vcodec h264 rtsp://127.0.0.1
> >> ffmpeg version git-2017-09-02-69e6877 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg
> >> developers
> >>  built with gcc 5.2.1 (Ubuntu 5.2.1-22ubuntu2) 20151010
> >>  configuration:
> >>  libavutil      55. 74.100 / 55. 74.100
> >>  libavcodec     57.104.101 / 57.104.101
> >>  libavformat    57. 81.100 / 57. 81.100
> >>  libavdevice    57.  8.100 / 57.  8.100
> >>  libavfilter     6.101.100 /  6.101.100
> >>  libswscale      4.  7.103 /  4.  7.103
> >>  libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
> >> Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'timescape.mp4':
> >>  Metadata:
> >>    major_brand     : isom
> >>    minor_version   : 1
> >>    compatible_brands: isomavc1
> >>    creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
> >>  Duration: 00:02:18.55, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2674 kb/s
> >>    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p,
> >> 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2515 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn,
> >> 47.95 tbc (default)
> >>    Metadata:
> >>      creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
> >>      handler_name    : GPAC ISO Video Handler
> >>    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz,
> >> stereo, fltp, 157 kb/s (default)
> >>    Metadata:
> >>      creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
> >>      handler_name    : GPAC ISO Audio Handler
> >> [NULL @ 0x3bf1880] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'rtsp://
> >> 127.0.0.1'
> >> rtsp://127.0.0.1: Invalid argument
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 17:44 Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2018-12-05 10:38 GMT+01:00, Agniva De Sarker <
> >>> agniva.quicksilver at gmail.com>:
> >>>> I have a stream of images coming from an another application which I
> am
> >>>> streaming to ffmpeg from a pipe. Now I want to expose this stream as
> an
> >>>> rtsp stream encoded with .h264.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can do the stream using something like this -
> >>>>
> >>>
> https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/12961/ffmpeg-input-from-images-stream-out-video
> >>>>
> >>>> I see that using ffserver, I can create the rtsp stream. (
> >>>>
> >>>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26999595/what-steps-are-needed-to-stream-rtsp-from-ffmpeg
> >>> ).
> >>>> But ffserver seems to be discontinued. So what is the best option in
> >>> this
> >>>> scenario ?
> >>>>
> >>>> In short, I have a stream of images, which I want to compress using
> >>> h.264
> >>>> and send off as an rtsp stream. Is it possible natively using ffmpeg ?
> >>>
> >>> What did you try?
> >>>
> >>> $ ffmpeg -i - -vcodec h264 rtsp://127.0.0.1
> >>>
> >>> Carl Eugen
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