[FFmpeg-user] HTML5 live streaming

Mon Apr 22 06:30:23 CEST 2013

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Ricardo Kleemann
<ricardo at americasnet.com> wrote:
> That's great, I didn't realize it.
>
> I'm trying to convert the input to h.264 + AAC and output to the segmenter
> but it's not working. Can you help me find the error in the command?
>
> ffmpeg -loglevel debug -threads 4 -i "rtmp://server1/live/livestream1"
> -i_qfactor 0.71 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 63 -qdiff 4 -trellis 0 -vcodec
> libx264 -s 480x270 -b:v 512k -b:a 56k -ar 22050 -map 0 -f segment
> -segment_time 10 -segment_list live.m3u8 -segment_list_flags +live
> live_%05d.ts
>

Here is the command I use which works with my iPad 3rd Gen. I cd into
the directory that I want the files to load from on the server. My
case is "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/stream/" which is
"http://domain/stream/". You probably should lose all the extra
options. for realtime encoding add "-re" to the command. You will want
to change RESOLUTION BITRATE & VIDSOURCE to what you need. Also below
is an example html file.
This is with ffmpeg git from a week ago. notice the "-hls*" options
instead of -segment.* options.

ffmpeg  -i VIDSOURCE -y  -c:v libx264 -b:v BITRATE -vprofile baseline
-preset medium -x264opts level=41 -threads 4 -s RESOLUTION -map 0:v
-map 0:a:0  -c:a libfaac -b:a 160000 -ac 2   -hls_time 10
-hls_list_size 6 -hls_wrap 18 -start_number 1 stream.m3u8

index.htm:
<html>
<body>
   <video  height="531"  width="945" autoplay="autoplay" controls="controls">
    <source src="stream.m3u8" />
   </video>
</body>
</html>

Hope this is helpful.

Jonathan