[FFmpeg-user] Input from named pipes

[sjturley]

It will run for 5-10 seconds before it dies.


Roger Pack wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Steve Turley <sjturley@> wrote:
>> I am reading a live/real-time MPEG-2 transport stream from a named pipe
>> into
>> FFmpeg.  The incoming stream is MPEG-2 video and AC-3 audio.  I need to
>> transcode to H.264 and MP3.  I can cat the named pipe to a file and play
>> back the MPEG-2 video without issue in VLC or TS Reader.  Does anyone
>> have
>> tips on how to use named pipes as input to FFmpeg?
>>
>> Here are some commands I've tried:
>> ffmpeg -i ~/stream_pipe -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k -ar 44100 -ac 2
>> -vcodec
>> libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -b 1000k -s 640x480 -r 29.97 -strict
>> experimental -deinterlace -f mpegts -y udp://192.168.1.1:10000
>> ffmpeg -f mpegts -re -i ~/stream_pipe -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k -ar
>> 44100
>> -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -b 1000k -s 640x480 -r
>> 29.97
>> -strict experimental -deinterlace -f mpegts -y udp://192.168.1.1:10000
> 
> Does it just die immediately then?
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