[FFmpeg-user] How to stream just audio with ffmpeg

[Yan Brenman]

Just in anticipation of one likely suggestion I tried to disable video 
with ffplay too:

ffplay -vn rtmp://[RTMP_server_name]/live/[file_name]

This didn't work either.

Thanks
Yan

On 7/12/2014 11:12 AM, Yan Brenman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to stream just audio with ffmpeg from a PC with built in 
> microphone and play on the other PC with ffplay.
> The name of a microphone device I get with "ffmpeg -list_devices true 
> -f dshow -i dummy" command.
>
> The command on the streaming side looks like this:
>
> ffmpeg -f dshow -i audio="Internal Microphone Array (IDT High 
> Definition Audio CODEC)" -vn -c:a mp3 -q:a 9 -ar 11025 -ac 1 -f flv 
> rtmp://[RTMP_server_name]/live/[file_name]
>
> And as you can see I am explicitly disabling the video component from 
> being included by default with "-vn" switch.
> The streaming side seems to be working fine (with no warnings or 
> errors) but unfortunately when I try to play the audio stream with 
> ffplay it still tries to find the video stream
> and bails out with "RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet 
> header" error and then complaining the codec parameters for the video 
> stream can't be found.
>
> Seems to me that the root of the problem is the fact that ffplay is 
> still looking for video in stream 0, while in fact stream 0 is an 
> audio (and no video of course at all). I tried to run
> ffplay with "-nodisp" option but it didn't help either:
>
> ffplay -nodisp rtmp://[RTMP_server_name]/live/[file_name].
>
> Is there something wrong I am doing on the streaming side or is there 
> something else I need to specify on the playing side?
>
> Every piece of advise is greatly appreciated
> Yan
>
>
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