[FFmpeg-user] Multiple outputs advice. Live stream/Record/Preview

[Andrew Strachan]

>But the general advice is to use ffmpeg for video processing
>(capturing, filtering, encoding),
>then provide output streams to the streaming server (for reliability,
>run it on the same machine).
>Use the streaming server API to control recording, provide streams for
>outside users (or CDN).


Just to clarify, you suggest

source(Decklink) >> ffmpeg>> local streaming server>> file recording, preview and CDN

So 1 just x instance of ffmpeg is best, and not using multiple outputs.