[FFmpeg-user] Switching live input source

[Reuben Martin]

On Monday, August 04, 2014 02:11:36 PM Andrew Sinclair wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone know a means to switch the input to ffmpeg while it is running?
> 
> i.e. say I am doing an encode from a live source but would then like to
> switch the input to a file for 60 seconds and then back to the live source
> without disrupting the encode. Assume that the formats would be the same.

Feed the input to ffmpeg from melted.
http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/Melted