[FFmpeg-user] Newbie streaming problem

[Steven Occhipinti]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to ffmpeg and am a little confused on how ffserver works.
My goal is to stream a webcam from one machine to (one or more) others.
Ideally I would want the client machine to only require a web browser
and the basic plugins, etc. to view the stream.

I have Ubuntu 10.04.3 server installed and ffmpeg/ffserver from the repo.
If I run this command to test the webcam and it starts up and a video
file is successfully recorded /tmp/test.mp4:
  #> ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 320x240  -r 15 -i /dev/video0
-vcodec mpeg4 -vtag DIVX /tmp/test.mp4
I copied /etc/ffserver.conf to my home dir - I think I need to tweak
this file a bit, but need a little help.
I ran this command and it started a server on localhost:8090
  #> ffserver -f ~/ffserver.conf
I then ran
  #> ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 320x240  -r 15 -i /dev/video0
-vcodec mpeg4 -vtag DIVX http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm

and this is the output I get:

  #> ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 320x240  -r 15 -i /dev/video0
-vcodec mpeg4 -vtag DIVX http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm
FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.2, Copyright (c) 2000-2009
Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.2 --prefix=/usr
--enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib
--enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex
--enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib
--disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect
--enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab
--enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec    52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Sep 16 2011 17:04:18, gcc: 4.4.3
[video4linux2 @ 0x89092c0][3]Capabilities: 4000001
[video4linux2 @ 0x89092c0]The V4L2 driver changed the video from
320x240 to 176x144
Input #0, video4linux2, from '/dev/video0':
  Duration: N/A, start: 1318298315.446232, bitrate: 6082 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuyv422, 176x144, 6082 kb/s, 15 tbr,
1000k tbn, 15 tbc
Output #0, ffm, to 'http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm':
    Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, mono, s16, 32 kb/s
    Stream #0.1: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 176x144, q=3-31, 64 kb/s,
1000k tbn, 3 tbc
    Stream #0.2: Audio: mp2, 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 64 kb/s
    Stream #0.3: Video: msmpeg4, yuv420p, 352x240, q=3-31, 256 kb/s,
1000k tbn, 15 tbc
Could not find input stream matching output stream #0.0
ioctl(VIDIOC_QBUF)


I'm assuming I need to setup a more suitable <feed> definition to
match the input, but after some fiddling I can't seem to get it
working.
I've attached my ffserver.conf - Any help is much appreciated.


Cheers,
Steve
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