[FFmpeg-user] How to make FFMEPG ignore errors and keep encoding

Chuck Love ztvqui1090 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 15:22:12 EET 2019


So why VLC can play the streams continuously but ffmpeg can't. I thougth
ffmpeg should have some flag to handle error and continue. The TCP
connection to the m3u8 is not lost though.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:46 AM Bryce McLeod <bryce.mcleod at codory.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This isn't something you can do with command line flags. If you cannot
> resolve the problem with the stream then have your calling process/script
> restart ffmpeg when this happens. Depending on the error checking the exit
> code is usually enough.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:34 AM Chuck Love <ztvqui1090 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an m3u8 Live streaming here.
> > http:// 23.237.2.66 : 2209/Local10.m3u8
> >
> > Please remove spaces in the URL
> >
> > Basically I can use VLC to stream this HLS link for several hours with no
> > problem. However when using ffmpeg to restream to my local RTMP server,
> > after a while it disconnect and give error like this
> >
> > av_interleaved_write_frame(): Unknown error
> >     Last message repeated 1 times
> > [flv @ 000001cb6deba5c0] Failed to update header with correct duration.
> > [flv @ 000001cb6deba5c0] Failed to update header with correct filesize.
> >
> > The command I use is
> > ffmpeg -err_detect ignore_err -re -i "
> http://23.237.2.66:2209/Local10.m3u8
> > "
> > -async 1 -vsync -1 -c:v copy -c:a aac -strict 2 -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -b:a
> > 128k -max_muxing_queue_size 1024 -tune zerolatency -f flv "rtmpServer"
> >
> > I am using Windows Server 2016 and ffmpeg static complied on 10-28-2019
> >
> > What flags should I add to the command to tell ffmpeg to ignore all
> errors
> > and keep doing the job, provided that, the m3u8 file is working
> > continuously in VLC? If VLC does not stop the streams, then FFMPEG should
> > not stop encoding too.
> >
> > Thanks
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