Re: [FFmpeg-user] 371MB Output file for 6:50 min?

2021-06-27 Thread S. Helbig via ffmpeg-user
Thanks! Yes, the output now varies as I played with the '-segment_time' and left out the '-timelimit' option. I did not specify a codec, but there is only video, no audio so I left it out for now. May refine this later. First I'd like to get a loop recording working, returning a set amount of ou

Re: [FFmpeg-user] 371MB Output file for 6:50 min?

2021-06-26 Thread Ferdi Scholten
Several issues -timelimit uses CPU time in seconds, so whenever ffmpeg has used 1800 seconds CPU time on your system. This is not related to the actual duration of the video, but how much time ffmpeg needs to execute on your CPU, which is on a modern system a fraction of a second for every sec

[FFmpeg-user] 371MB Output file for 6:50 min?

2021-06-26 Thread S. Helbig via ffmpeg-user
Hello, FFMPEG is creating an ever growing output file from a recorded IP cam stream. But the acual video is only about 7min. My input command was: ffmpeg -loglevel debug -timelimit 1.800 -hide_banner -i 'http://192.168.1.234:567/videostream.cgi?user=USER&pwd=PWD' -y -segment_time 1.800 /path/to/d