[FFmpeg-user] Analyze HLS stream with ffprobe

[Hanno Klamke]

Hi,

I would like to monitor a HLS stream continuousely  with ffprobe.
In the example below I only used -show_stream but later I would like to use -show_frames as well and output it via XML.

The HLS stream was created successfully with ffmpeg before, I could play it and everything seemed working.
But when I try to access it via ffprobe I get  an error
" Failed to open segment of playlist 0"
" Error when loading first segment 'segment-1800k00044.ts'"
What is strange for me: ffprobe can open the .m3u8 and find out what is the first .ts segment. The name of the first segment will change as the live stream goes on and the entries in the playlist get updated (set max amount of 10 segment listings). 
If I would tell ffprobe to open this segment and not the .m3u8 it will print the information without problems.

"...\index_1800.m3u8: No such file or directory" this error occurs even though ffprobe can check what segment to open... that seems strange.


>ffprobe  -print_format xml -show_streams ...\index_1800.m3u8
ffprobe version N-64711-gfa6716c Copyright (c) 2007-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jul 16 2014 22:09:27 with gcc 4.8.3 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --
enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-lib
modplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrw
b --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinge
r --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --en
able-libvidstab --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis
--enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-
libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-decklink --enable-zlib
  libavutil      52. 92.100 / 52. 92.100
  libavcodec     55. 69.100 / 55. 69.100
  libavformat    55. 48.101 / 55. 48.101
  libavdevice    55. 13.102 / 55. 13.102
  libavfilter     4. 11.100 /  4. 11.100
  libswscale      2.  6.100 /  2.  6.100
  libswresample   0. 19.100 /  0. 19.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ffprobe>
[hls,applehttp @ 0000000000354320] Failed to open segment of playlist 0
[hls,applehttp @ 0000000000354320] Error when loading first segment 'segment-180
0k00044.ts'
...\index_1800.m3u8: No such file or directory