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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to setup a streaming server using ffmpeg and ffserver.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have an mjpeg feed from an IP camera as input. I need to transcode this to h264 using ffmpeg and restream it using ffserver.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have any one tried this before?. What is the working configuration in ffserver conf file and ffmpeg command line?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is what I have tried and so far I am not much successful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Configuration in ffserver:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Port 8090<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MaxHTTPConnections 2000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MaxClients 1000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MaxBandwidth 10000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NoDaemon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><Feed feed1.ffm><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">File /tmp/feed1.ffm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FileMaxSize 200K<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ACL allow 127.0.0.1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></Feed><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><Stream test1.mp4><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Feed feed1.ffm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Format rtp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NoAudio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></Stream><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ffmpeg command:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ffmpeg -f mjpeg -i "http://cameraIP/videostream.cgi?user=something&pwd=something" -vpre lossless_ultrafast -vcodec libx264 -an -r 27 -s 160x240 http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">here is the output of the ffmpeg command:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[mjpeg @ 0x9cedb00] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[mjpeg @ 0x9cedb00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Input #0, mjpeg, from 'http://10.112.78.103/videostream.cgi?user=admin&pwd=':<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p, 320x240, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1200k tbn, 25 tbc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[buffer @ 0x9e5b600] w:320 h:240 pixfmt:yuvj422p tb:1/1000000 sar:0/1 sws_param:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[scale @ 0x9e42e60] w:320 h:240 fmt:yuvj422p -> w:160 h:128 fmt:yuvj420p flags:0x4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[libx264 @ 0x9d02e40] VBV is incompatible with constant QP, ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[libx264 @ 0x9d02e40] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 FastShuffle SSE4.1 Cache64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[libx264 @ 0x9d02e40] profile High 4:4:4 Predictive, level 1.1, 4:2:0 8-bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Output #0, ffm, to 'http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm':<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Metadata:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> encoder : Lavf53.24.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Stream #0:0: Video: h264, yuvj420p, 160x128, q=10-51, 64 kb/s, 1000k tbn, 25 tbc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stream mapping:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (mjpeg -> libx264)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Press [q] to stop, [?] for help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[mjpeg @ 0x9cfda40] Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring 1916kB time=00:00:07.16 bitrate=2192.2kbits/s
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring 6644kB time=00:00:24.96 bitrate=2180.6kbits/s dup=1 drop=0
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring11400kB time=00:00:43.08 bitrate=2167.8kbits/s dup=2 drop=0
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Found EOI before any SOF, ignoring19644kB time=00:01:13.32 bitrate=2194.8kbits/s dup=3 drop=0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Output of ffserver:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wed Feb 1 14:43:03 2012 127.0.0.1 - - [GET] "/feed1.ffm HTTP/1.1" 200 4149<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wed Feb 1 14:43:20 2012 Error writing output header<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vlc Player is not able to play this stream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Some inputs will be helpful to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks and Regards<b><span style="color:#3333CC">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#3333CC">Rakesh<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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