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ffserver is a streaming server for both audio and video. Questions about using ffserver that do not involve programming should be asked at Super User.

ffserver receives prerecorded files, or FFM streams from ffmpeg, then streams them over RTP/RTSP/HTTP. It is configured through a configuration file.

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Command-line streaming webcam with audio from Ubuntu server in WebM format

I am trying to stream video and audio from my webcam connected to my headless Ubuntu server (running Maverick 10.10). I want to be able to stream in WebM format (VP8 video + OGG). Bandwidth is limited, and so the stream must be below 1Mbps. I have…
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MediaCodec decode AAC audio chunks from RTSP and play

I'm receiving rtp packets containing aac audio chunks encoded by libvo_aacenc (44100hz 128kbps 2ch) from a FFServer instance. I'm trying to decode them with MediaCodec one by one in Android and playback as soon as the chunk is…
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FFmpeg Live streaming Error: ffmpeg av_interleaved_write_frame broken pipe. Conversion Failed

I am trying to stream video live using ffmpeg. videos stream is coming from a camera over the network and there is bunch error that i got in initial part of doing this but here i am stacked with a error that is coming from ffmpeg where it says…
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ffmpeg rotate image to feed ffserver

With ffmpeg I am providing a feed to ffserver from an image repeatedly read. I use the following instruction ffmpeg -v debug -loop 1 -f image2 -i http://IP_ADDRESS/image.jpg -c:v libx264 http://FFSERVER_IP_ADDRESS:8090/feed.ffm In this way I can…
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Begin stream simple mp4 with ffserver

I want to stream a mp4 and for this I read about ffserver. So I search and read ffserver documentations but still cant stream a simple file. For this I done these: 1-A win 8 and last VLC installed. 2-A Ubuntu 13 with last ffmpeg package. 3-A…
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How to do Simple video streaming with ffserver on windows?

I found a tutorial for configuring server here http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/Simple_video_streaming_with_ffserver but it is for linux... how to do such thing on windows? (with a real web cam)
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Multiple Video Streams in one Feed ffmpeg

We are trying to send live stream from two webcams as below : ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video1 http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm We want to play both the streams using any players available. When we use VLC, to…
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ffserver "dimensions not set" when loading stream

I am live streaming a webcam from my raspberry pi using avconv (ffmpeg "replacement") avconv -f video4linux2 -v debug -r 5 -s 176x144 -i /dev/video0 -vcodec mjpeg http://192.168.0.3:8090/feed1.ffm to my local network OSX machine (for testing)…
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how to restream rtsp h264 as "live dvr" for iOs using ffserver?

I would like to grab an existing stream from an IP-Camera delivering h264 encoded rtsp stream and restream it for iPhone/Ipad, where the user would have the opportunity to jump back in time for aprox. 1 minute. And later jump back to the "live"…
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How can I convince ffserver to save a locally-sourced webcam stream to a file in high resolution AND stream it in lower resolution?

We have a remote Linux machine, accessible over VPN, which has a USB webcam. We want to use this for video conferencing, but we also want to store the stream for archiving. Since the streaming bandwidth is limited, it makes sense to capture the…
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Convert RTP/UDP Stream to HTTP with ffmpeg

As you may know, Android uses a strange implementation of RTP - It can only play low bitrate RTP streams. On the other hand, it can play Full HD HTTP stream flawlessly. I'm trying a workaround for this problem: As stated in the title, using ffmpeg…
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Issue with output RTSP stream converted using ffmpeg filter-complex

I have a camera feed which I am getting in RTSP for example: rtsp://172.16.1.177:8554/test here are the stream details I got using ffmpeg -i rtsp://172.16.1.177:8554/test Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://172.16.1.177:8554/test': Metadata: title …
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FFServer over https

we're currently providing video/audo feeds via ffserver over "http" i.e. http://127.0.0.1:8000/folder/feed1.mjpg however, now we need to add the feeds to secure pages over "https" so we need to do something like this…
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FFMpeg/FFServer P2P streaming between embedded device and smartphone

I've been playing for the last couple of days with FFMpeg and FFServer as I am considering them as candidates for livestreaming between an embedded device(with an integrated HD camera) and various clients(smartphones). I've managed to achieve the…
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Is mp4 stream able with ffserver?

Days I trying to stream mp4 file with ffserver. I read many questions like these: https://superuser.com/questions/563591/streaming-mp4-with-ffmpeg Begin stream simple mp4 with…
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