[FFmpeg-user] ffserver streaming H.264 from Logitech C920

Ricardo Mota ricardoflmota at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 22:48:58 CEST 2014


I'm having some trouble trying to implement a web live stream from my
Logitech C920 webcam w/ H.264 encoding using ffmpeg/ffserver.

Here is the configuration file I'm using for the ffserver:

# Port on which the server is listening. You must select a different
# port from your standard HTTP web server if it is running on the same
# computer.
Port 8090

# Address on which the server is bound. Only useful if you have
# several network interfaces.
BindAddress 0.0.0.0

# Number of simultaneous HTTP connections that can be handled. It has
# to be defined *before* the MaxClients parameter, since it defines the
# MaxClients maximum limit.
MaxHTTPConnections 2000

# Number of simultaneous requests that can be handled. Since FFServer
# is very fast, it is more likely that you will want to leave this high
# and use MaxBandwidth, below.
MaxClients 1000

# This the maximum amount of kbit/sec that you are prepared to
# consume when streaming to clients.
MaxBandwidth 1000

# Access log file (uses standard Apache log file format)
# '-' is the standard output.
CustomLog -

##################################################################
# Definition of the live feeds. Each live feed contains one video
# and/or audio sequence coming from an ffmpeg encoder or another
# ffserver. This sequence may be encoded simultaneously with several
# codecs at several resolutions.

<Feed feed.ffm>

# You must use 'ffmpeg' to send a live feed to ffserver. In this
# example, you can type:
#

File /tmp/feed.ffm
FileMaxSize 100M

# You could specify
# ReadOnlyFile /saved/specialvideo.ffm
# This marks the file as readonly and it will not be deleted or updated.

# Only allow connections from localhost to the feed.
ACL allow 127.0.0.1

</Feed>


##################################################################
# Now you can define each stream which will be generated from the
# original audio and video stream. Each format has a filename (here
# 'test1.mpg'). FFServer will send this stream when answering a
# request containing this filename.

<stream stream.mp4>

Feed feed.ffm
Format mp4

# Audio settings
NoAudio

# Video Settings
#VideoSize 1280x720                      # Video resolution
#VideoFrameRate 30                      # Video FPS
#AVOptionVideo flags +global_header          # Parameters passed to encoder
#AVOptionVideo cpu-used 0
#AVOptionVideo qmin 10
#AVOptionVideo qmax 42
#AVOptionVideo quality good
PreRoll 0
StartSendOnKey
#VideoBitRate 400                      # Video bitrate

</stream>

# Server status

<Stream stat.html>
Format status

# Only allow local people to get the status
ACL allow localhost
ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255

</Stream>


And here is the command I'm issuing through the command line and the
respective output:

$ ffmpeg -s 1280x720 -f video4linux2 -r 30 -vcodec h264 -re -i /dev/video0 \
    -copyinkf -codec copy h**p://localhost:8090/feed.ffm

ffmpeg version N-67036-g04a4fb8 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct 20 2014 17:39:50 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libx264
  libavutil      54. 10.100 / 54. 10.100
  libavcodec     56.  8.102 / 56.  8.102
  libavformat    56.  9.101 / 56.  9.101
  libavdevice    56.  1.100 / 56.  1.100
  libavfilter     5.  2.100 /  5.  2.100
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100
Input #0, video4linux2,v4l2, from '/dev/video0':
  Duration: N/A, start: 12614.859199, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuvj420p(pc),
1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], -5 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1000k tbn, 60
tbc
Output #0, ffm, to 'h**p://localhost:8090/feed.ffm':
  Metadata:
    creation_time   : now
    encoder         : Lavf56.9.101
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264, yuvj420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9],
q=2-31, -5 kb/s, 30 fps, 1000k tbn, 30 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
0, current: -166263; changing to 1. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
1, current: -134365; changing to 2. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
2, current: -102381; changing to 3. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
3, current: -66434; changing to 4. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
4, current: -34548; changing to 5. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
5, current: -2645; changing to 6. This may result in incorrect
timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
232857, current: 138514; changing to 232858. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
232858, current: 167942; changing to 232859. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
232859, current: 197415; changing to 232860. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
232860, current: 227037; changing to 232861. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
997959, current: 938599; changing to 997960. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
997960, current: 995052; changing to 997961. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
1240745, current: 1232841; changing to 1240746. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[ffm @ 0x28c7ea0] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous:
1293561, current: 1282157; changing to 1293562. This may result in
incorrect timestamps in the output file.
frame=   69 fps= 34 q=-1.0 Lsize=     912kB time=00:00:02.01
bitrate=3702.1kbits/s


When I try to play the stream with VLC for example:
 vlc h**p://localhost:8090/stream.mp4
I get the following error:

[00007f5234003948] core stream error: cannot pre fill buffer

And I can't watch the stream on the web browser side either.

Could someone give me an hint on this?

-- 
Ricardo Mota


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