[FFmpeg-user] Live Streaming in browser just downloads a file no streaming happening

Tue Oct 16 13:29:56 EEST 2018

most browsers dont have native flash playback support and usually require the flash player plugin.. but.. flash support is basically deprecated in most major browsers.

you didnt say what browser your using, but if its chrome you may find this a good read...

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=767342

and if you add the site address manually in 'allow' list of 'flash' under 'content settings' - Chrome>settings>advance>content settings>flash>allow you may have some luck.

else you can try a simple embed

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<object width="683" height="384" data=".swf"></object>

</body>
</html>

most of this info was found scrolling through: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/zVTCfJsssAQ

or you can stream in a format that is natively supported by browsers (html5).

cheers,

> On Oct 15, 2018, at 9:35 42AM, Abhisek Techie <abhisek.study2016 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to stream live video from camera in the browser but it
> downloads  file named test.swf and I don't see any video streaming in
> browser
> 
> Below are the steps  that I have performed
> 
> 1.ffserver.conf that I am using
> 
> HTTPPort 8090
> HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
> MaxHTTPConnections 2000
> MaxClients 1000
> MaxBandwidth 15000
> <Feed feed1.ffm>
> File /tmp/feed1.ffm
> FileMaxSize 200K
> ACL allow 127.0.0.1
> </Feed>
> 
> # Flash
> <Stream test.swf>
> Feed feed1.ffm
> VideoCodec flv
> Format swf
> VideoFrameRate 30
> VideoIntraOnly
> NoAudio
> </Stream>
> 
> <Stream stat.html>
> Format status
> # Only allow local people to get the status
> ACL allow localhost
> ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
> </Stream>
> 
> <Redirect index.html>
> URL http://www.ffmpeg.org/
> </Redirect>
> 
> 
> 2.I started the ffserver
> 
> ffserver -d -f /etc/ffserver.conf
> 
> 
> 3.Linked camera with feed
> ffmpeg -r 30 -s 320*240 -hide_banner -f video4linux2 -loglevel debug  -i
> /dev/video0 -f flv http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm
> 
> 4.Opened browser and typed  http://localhost:8090/test.swf to watch  the
> feed, I found test.swf file getting downloaded and don't see streaming.
> 
> Please suggest if I am missing or doing something wrong
> 
> Regards
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