[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg for transcoding a stream into web pag

Michael Shaffer mikeshaffer at gmail.com
Sat May 4 02:19:44 EEST 2019


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On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:58 PM R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ted,
>
>
> that seems to work!  thank you!!  That ffmpeg command is indeed making a
> movie from that stream into a file, tried watching it, VLC does give me
> trouble, but it shows it as a movie.
>
> Would be cool if I could have the output as a stream, that I can embed.
>
> I am new to ffmpeg and gstreamer things.. and the command options don't
> seem to be too obvious to me
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> On 5/3/19 2:17 AM, Ted Park wrote:
> >> So my idea was tho use ffmpeg or gstreamer to  embed it in html, with
> some
> >> sort of player.
> > Html you’re gonna need to write yourself, but you can use the rtsp
> stream as an input and output HLS to embed in your html, I think this will
> get you what you want.
> >
> > Something like
> >
> > ffmpeg -i rtsp://192.0.2.123/stream.sdp -f hls -hls_playlist_type event
> -hls_segment_type mpegts -hls_segment_filename segment-%d.ts index.m3u8
> >
> > Will produce a playlist file pointing to little segments of ts files
> that you can host with any http server. It should work,  (you might need to
> transcode to h264 if it’s not) A html5 video element with the playlist file
> as the source should play in most browsers nowadays.
> >
> > <video autoplay controls src=“url/to/index.m3u8”>This text displays if
> the video element isn’t supported.</video>
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