On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Felix E. Klee wrote:
Thanks Luke! Hm, I thought it was standard feature. But being not, I
Of ffmpeg? The ability to add to the list of sources after the process has
started? I highly doubt it.
I have never seen a feature like that in ffmpeg described. Maybe you need the
ability to read a list of sources from STDIN on an as-needed basis?
But don't take my word for it Felix, I could still be quite wrong.
The requirement for continuous video is how I *think* it works, and that weird
segmenting idea is the only way I can think of using only ffmpeg to do it.
I would imagine that if there is another way to have ffmpeg stream from a file,
and add to that file dynamically, you could accomplish the same thing, but I
still think you would need a headerless format (I.E. MPEGTS) to make it work.
I am no authority on this, I just wanted to present a possible answer that
nobody else mentioned.
> guess I'll first look at Wowza which seems to be scriptable with
ActionScript. Fortunately, I've used ActionScript before: Many years
ago, I wrote a streaming video player, based on AMS.
If I recall, Wowza has a JAVA API as well, if you want to get really serious
about it. But your problem hasn't changed, you just moved it from the source to
the server. It may be that Wowza already has a connection keeping feature for
this. Present it on their list and see what you get.
Anyhow, there must be a smooth solution. l just can't believe that
it's not possible to run something akin to a TV station on the
Internet.
I'm sure you can, as long as you can avoid interrupting the stream. Which was
my whole point. You would seem to need a constant stream, with ability to
switch sources in and out of it on the fly. But there always has to be
something streaming, even in the short gap between sources. Someone correct me
if I'm wrong please.
Luke
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