[FFmpeg-user] Is there a way to reconnect to a RTSP stream after it disappears from the network?

[arthurpeabody]

When streamripper restarts after a dropout it creates a new file.  When one archives a log file in Linux, the daemon that writes to it stops writing to it, for which reason one must stop a daemon when archiving its log file, then restart.  This could be ffmpeg's problem: the file handle to which it was writing has disappeared and it isn't opening a new one.