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

[Agniva De Sarker]

Wanted to follow up on this again. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:24 PM Agniva De Sarker <
agniva.quicksilver at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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