[FFmpeg-user] Can ffmpeg replay a live stream of constantly growing segmented *flv files?

[Henry Soang]

Hi all,

ffmpeg question:

I have configured nginx to segment a live stream
from a camera into sequential *flv files (about 1 minute duration each)
 in a directory. Each *flv file has a timestamp. For example:

[me at mybox /mydir] ls -lr test1*flv
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      9898994 Sep 17 20:10
test1-1410946937.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10450933 Sep 17 17:42
test1-1410946906.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10437684 Sep 17 17:41
test1-1410946875.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10441149 Sep 17 17:41
test1-1410946844.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10454367 Sep 17 17:40
test1-1410946813.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10114779 Sep 17 17:40
test1-1410946783.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10454252 Sep 17 17:39
test1-1410946752.flv*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     10449784 Sep 17 17:39
test1-1410946721.flv*
....
<more get constantly added>

My question is:

I would like for a way to create an rtmp live stream that are the contents
of the *flv
files in this directory combined
- keeping in mind new files may be added as this is a live stream.

Is there a way to get ffmpeg to do something like this?

I thought perhaps the concat protocol could be used for this, but I *think*
that is a one time read on all the *flv files and no way for it to discover
the newly generated files in that directory.

Thanks for an ideas.