[FFmpeg-user] How can I expose an rtsp stream using ffmpeg

[Agniva De Sarker]

I tried with a simple mp4 file.

ffmpeg -i timescape.mp4 -vcodec h264 rtsp://127.0.0.1
ffmpeg version git-2017-09-02-69e6877 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg
developers
  built with gcc 5.2.1 (Ubuntu 5.2.1-22ubuntu2) 20151010
  configuration:
  libavutil      55. 74.100 / 55. 74.100
  libavcodec     57.104.101 / 57.104.101
  libavformat    57. 81.100 / 57. 81.100
  libavdevice    57.  8.100 / 57.  8.100
  libavfilter     6.101.100 /  6.101.100
  libswscale      4.  7.103 /  4.  7.103
  libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'timescape.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 1
    compatible_brands: isomavc1
    creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
  Duration: 00:02:18.55, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2674 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p,
1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2515 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn,
47.95 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
      handler_name    : GPAC ISO Video Handler
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz,
stereo, fltp, 157 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2011-12-04T22:18:54.000000Z
      handler_name    : GPAC ISO Audio Handler
[NULL @ 0x3bf1880] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'rtsp://
127.0.0.1'
rtsp://127.0.0.1: Invalid argument


On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 17:44 Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2018-12-05 10:38 GMT+01:00, Agniva De Sarker <agniva.quicksilver at gmail.com
> >:
> > I have a stream of images coming from an another application which I am
> > streaming to ffmpeg from a pipe. Now I want to expose this stream as an
> > rtsp stream encoded with .h264.
> >
> > I can do the stream using something like this -
> >
> https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/12961/ffmpeg-input-from-images-stream-out-video
> >
> > I see that using ffserver, I can create the rtsp stream. (
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26999595/what-steps-are-needed-to-stream-rtsp-from-ffmpeg
> ).
> > But ffserver seems to be discontinued. So what is the best option in this
> > scenario ?
> >
> > In short, I have a stream of images, which I want to compress using h.264
> > and send off as an rtsp stream. Is it possible natively using ffmpeg ?
>
> What did you try?
>
> $ ffmpeg -i - -vcodec h264 rtsp://127.0.0.1
>
> Carl Eugen
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