[FFmpeg-user] Struggling with audio of multipart stream

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks. It seems to be a relatively standard format though, of mime type
multipart/x-mixed-replace
ffmpeg even has a demuxer for it - mpjpeg - but that forces the codec to
mjpeg, and I get lots of errors like
[mpjpeg @ 0x7fe5680e1800] Unexpected Content-Type : audio/g711u
[mpjpeg @ 0x7fe5680e1800] Unexpected Content-Type : video/x-h264

I wondered if there was a multipart demuxer which was agnostic to the
wrapped codecs
Chris

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 01:22, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:

> > I have a TPLink Kasa IP camera, which can be coaxed into sending a live
> or
> > recorded stream. It looks like this:
>
> That looks like some sort of custom format, perhaps to make it easier
> to stream over HTTP to a browser.
>
> I am guessing if you want to use this stream you'll probably have to
> write your own code to parse it and strip out the audio and video
> streams.
>
> > I can view or transcode the video, but it throws a lot of errors and
> > doesn't seem to see the audio stream. Can anybody help?
>
> That's because it's not a normal video format and you're just lucky the
> video decoder is able to pick out usable frames amongst all the other
> "rubbish" that isn't video.
>
> Unless you want to write some custom code, you're better off figuring
> out how to get the camera to send it in a proper format.
>
> Almost all cameras offer some kind of streaming, perhaps via RTP or
> RTSP, maybe requiring ONVIF to discover the URL, etc. so this one can
> almost certainly do it too, if you can just figure out how.
>
> It will by far be the better solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.
>