[FFmpeg-user] Live RTMP stream to HLS

Mon Nov 18 20:23:23 CET 2013

Thanks again.
I will check the domain info and see if I am missing something.

Todd Poole

On 11/18/2013 12:01 PM, Paulo Miguel Almeida Rodenas wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
>
> It seems like your RTMP url isn't fine since ffmpeg is complaining about the "iguide path".
>
> This is your url, right?
>
> rtmp://ny.premiumcdnlive.com/iguide:1935/ypb87lzx6ak05m3
>
> The url format is rtmp://<domain>:<port>/<streamname>
>
> Another thing you should check out is whether you stream port is 1935 or not, since you may change this on you stream server.
>
> Hope it works for you
>
> Paulo Miguel Almeida
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org [ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org] on behalf of Todd Poole [tpoole at mail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 11:08 AM
> To: FFmpeg user questions
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] Live RTMP stream to HLS
>
> Thanks again for the help but having a little difficulty. When I run the
> ffmpeg everything seems to go ok until near the end. Here is the part of
> the log with the error. It seems to be looking for an application folder
> that is missing. Not sure what that might be, any suggestions.
>
> (object begin)
> Property: <Name:              level, STRING:    error>
> Property: <Name:               code, STRING:    NetConnection.Connect.Rejected>
> Property: <Name:        description, STRING:    Connection failed:
> Application folder ([install-location]/applications/iguide:1935) is
> missing.>
> Property: <Name:           clientid, NUMBER:    483171666.00>
> (object end)
> (object end)
> HandleInvoke, server invoking <_error>
> rtmp server sent error
> RTMP_ReadPacket: fd=456
> RTMP_ClientPacket, received: invoke 18 bytes
> (object begin)
> Property: <Name:           no-name., STRING:    close>
> Property: <Name:           no-name., NUMBER:    0.00>
> Property: NULL
> (object end)
> HandleInvoke, server invoking <close>
> rtmp server requested close
> rtmp://ny.premiumcdnlive.com/iguide:1935/ypb87lzx6ak05m3: Unknown error
> occurred
>
>
> Todd Poole
>
> On 11/16/2013 6:27 AM, Paulo Miguel Almeida Rodenas wrote:
>> Hi mate,
>>
>> I've faced a similar situation in a project of mine and here is what worked for me:
>>
>> 1 - Recompile your ffmpeg adding --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl parameters
>>
>> 2 - Execute ffmpeg -v verbose -i rtmp://<host>:<port>/<stream> -c:v libx264 -c:a aac -ac 1 -strict -2 -crf 18 -profile:v baseline -maxrate 400k -bufsize 1835k -pix_fmt yuv420p -flags -global_header -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 6 -hls_wrap 10 -start_number 1 <pathToFolderYouWantTo>/<streamName>.m3u8
>>
>> 3 - Install a http server such as apache/jetty/nginx or any other.
>>
>> 4 - Make that folder you just mentioned on ffmpeg command (<pathToFolderYouWantTo>) to be accessible by an http url
>>
>> 5 - Create a simple html page like this:
>>
>> <html>
>> <body>
>> <video controls width="480" height="270" src="<streamName>.m3u8"/
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> 6 - Access it from any Apple device.
>>
>> Although it worked for me, it had a huge delay due to conversion process and so on. In my case it was around about 1:40 secs.
>>
>> Hope this works for you
>>
>>
>> Paulo Miguel Almeida
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org [ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org] on behalf of btpoole [tpoole at mail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:26 PM
>> To: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
>> Subject: [FFmpeg-user] Live RTMP stream to HLS
>>
>> I have seen several topics but no final solution. I am able to download a
>> live stream using rtmpdump. I can save the file but don't wish to do so. I
>> want to "push" the stream into ffmpeg to convert it to HLS if possible. I
>> can't save the the file in mp4 format because it can not be viewed until the
>> download is complete.  This will be a live stream so there might not be an
>> end. I have seen some stuff on listen but have not been able to get the
>> syntax right. It took a while to get rtmpdump formatted correctly. Is ffmpeg
>> able to take the live stream and transcode, encode, convert to HLS?  If so
>> can I get some advice or a point in the right direction.
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>>
>>
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