[FFmpeg-user] Trouble with ffmpeg ... -f tee and specific encodings per output

[Jason Bailey]

I'm trying to use "ffmpeg ... -f tee" to take a single RTMP input and slice it into two entirely different outputs -- one as a mpegts stream to specific host, and another as HLS output. Just when I think I've about got it figured out, I run into a brick wall. I've read a lot of documentation, but I'm not quite wrapping my head around all of it.


The tricky part is that the the mpegts output has very specific requirements -- it needs to be MPEG2TS with AC3 audio. The HLS output, however, should use HLS appropriate defaults -- h264 video, aac audio.


So with tee, should I be including the output specific parameters (encoding, bitrate, etc) in between the brackets like ".... -f tee [f=mpegts:vcodec=ac3]" (which seems to result in errors) or should it come in an additional form (before the tee is specified)? Is this a bad use case for tee?


The basic command I have (without encoding, etc) is something like this:


/usr/bin/ffmpeg -listen 1 rtmp://0.0.0.0:1935/tv6/go/mp4:live -f tee "[f=mpegts]udp://1.2.3.4:9999|[f=hls]stream.m3u8"


I'm just not sure how I tell ffmpeg that the mpegts output should be encoded with ac3 audio, for example, and the hls should be encoded using aac audio?


I'm just not connecting all the pieces -- I'm missing something!


Thanks



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