[FFmpeg-user] Sending dynamically generated ffmpeg output as a byte stream to a client

James Darnley james.darnley at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 20:40:46 CEST 2014


On 2014-07-01 20:24, Amila Perera wrote:
> Am I doing anything wrong here??
> Or else is there another way to achieve the same results.
> However my requirement is to, convert an .mov to .mp4 on the fly and send
> those byte stream to a client pc.

Yes.  The error message, highlighted in red, tells you exactly what you
are doing wrong.

> [mp4 @ 0x199ff20] *muxer does not support non seekable output*

You cannot create an mp4 file with the output being written to a pipe or
a network stream.

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