Looking for something I know exists but I have not found it yet. I am able to download the rtmp stream and save it to a file, but my goal is to download the steam and play it without saving it. I have learned that an mp4 will not play until a download is complete so this does me no good. Any help on sending the rtmp stream to an hls or something a roku player would recognize is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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It is possible. I have used a bat file to run rtmpdump and ffmpeg to pull a live stream to a private channel. Don't have all the bugs out yet but working on it. The bat is called from cgi script on my server.
No way. i tried alot but i didn't find a way. There is a program called wowza.You can try that.But you cannot turn your computer off,or you can upload to amazon cloudfront.It will cost you some money.
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I am trying to save any m3u8 stream playlist as video to disk as 1 complete video file, similar to vlc. I can create an AVAsset and play it in an AVPlayer fine, however the m3u8 links i have tried all return false from asset.isExportable so using AVAssetExportSession does not work. I thought it might be possible opening the link as an InputStream and then writing it to an OutputStream but was lost on how to do this. Is this a viable option or will it only return the actual m3u8 file instead of the .ts video links? Any guidance in the right direction would be appreciated. I am fine doing the research on how to use the different classes, i'm just kinda lost on where to go from here.
Thank you,
Phil
Building a single video from all the streams in a m3u8 playlist may not actually give you what you want, depending on the m3u8 file.
This is because m3u8 playlists can contain multiple bit rate versions for a single video - so if you added them all together you would get the same video with different quality levels (bit rates) one after another.
Its also worth noting that some videos streams will be encrypted, in fact most high value streams such as Netflix etc will be, so downloading them will not allow you to play them back unless you do it as part of the providers own 'download and go' service.
Finally, some services may make it hard for you to access the streams by requiring some form of authentication in parallel with the video stream URL.
Assuming all the above is fine or does not apply in your case, then the video files themselves can be downloaded as files using a HTTP downloading function. Good examples of these exist such as: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35510812/334402
Hello All I have been working on a project for a while:
I have a non standard MP4 video file I want to play off a server in a IPhone App (I am using Flash builder to create it).
Due to a combination of server problems (not correctly identifying MIME type and cant be changed) and IPhone limitations (e.g. not being able to force the iplayer to play files with wrong extension), I have had to setup a process that reads the file in, saves it locally and then point the video player at the local file.
Although this sort of works, i am having an issue with some of the files that are large (94mb for a 17 min video) and a slow server - which takes 120 seconds to transfer the whole file.
I thought that if you started playing the video, then the transfer rate would be faster than the playback rate so the video would play ok.
However sometimes the video just crashes, which i am guessing is a result of the video reading beyond what has been written.
If the video played the internal file using progressive download I think it would probably not crash but resume once more date had been read but understand that progressive download is triggered by a url extension beginning with HTTP://
Can you make an internal file play using progressive download ? I know this would not normally be expected as logically the system would expect a local file to already be download ?
Any help appreciated
Thanks
Toby
try this to know download file is complete or not
HCDownload
it is very easy to use only write its delegate method.
Edit
also see StitchedStreamPlayer
These days, I was researching the software architechture for iPhone Streaming (Base on MMS protocol).
As we know, in order to playback MMS audio stream, we should call libMMS to read wma stream data from remote media server, and then call FFmpeg to decode the stream data from wma format into PCM data buffer, and finally, enqueue the PCM data buffer into iPhone’s audioqueue to generate real sound.
The introduction above just describe the working process of iPhone streaming. If we only need to implement this simple functionality, that is not difficult. Just follow the introduction above to call libMMS, FFMpeg and audioqueue step by step, we can achieve the streaming function. Actually, I have implemented the code last week.
But, what I need is not only a simple streaming function! I need a software architechture makes FFmpeg accessing libMMS just like accessing local filesystem!
Does anybody know how to hook the libMMS interfaces like mms_read/mms_seek onto FFmpeg filesystem interfaces like av_read_frame/av_seek_frame?
I think I have to answer my own question again this time……
After several weeks reseach and debuging, I got the truth finally.
Actually, we don’t need to “hook” libMMS onto FFMpeg. Why? Because the FFMpeg already has its native mms protocol process module “mms_protocol” (see in mms_protocol.c in FFMpeg).
All we need to do is just configuring the FFMpeg to enable the mms module like this (see in config.h in FFMpeg):
#define ENABLE_MMS_PROTOCOL 1
#define CONFIG_MMS_PROTOCOL 1
After this configuration, FFMpeg will add mms protocol into its protocol list. (Actually, the protocol list has already contained “local file system protocol”). As result, the FFMpeg could be able to treat the “mms://hostserver/abc” media file like local media file. Therefore, we can still open and read the mms media file using:
av_open_input_file();
av_read_frame();
like we did on local media file before!
By the way, in my ffmpeg version, there are still many bugs in libAVFormat module for proccessing mms protocol. It took one week for me to debug it, however, I think it will be much shorter for the guy as smart as you:-)
I have a library of videos (in .avi format). I'd like to make a webapp where I could watch these videos youtube-style, but without having to have all of them converted to flv format all the time -- so, basically, I want use the app to choose one to play, and transcode it on the fly. I'd also like to be able to pause, seek, etc.
Is this possible? If so, what would the overview of the process be? I know ffmpeg can be used to convert avi to flv, but I'm not sure about the rest of the process. Would I create one thread that start the transcoding, and then another which starts playing the output file as it gets transcoded? Or would that cause problems with playback since it would only be a partial file? Is there a better way of doing this?
For reference, I'll be using grails to write the webapp.
On the fly transcoding use vlc or ffmpeg with red5
I have a program on the server side that keeps generating a series of JPEG files, and I want to play these files on the client browser as a video stream, with a desired frame rates (this video should be playing while the new JPEG files are being generated). Meanwhile, I have a wav file that is handy and I want to play this wav file in the client side, when the streaming video is being played.
Is there anyway to do it? I have done a plenty of research but can't find a satisfactory solution -- they are either just for video streaming or just for audio streaming.
I know mjpg-streamer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/ is capable of playing streaming videos in MJPG format from JPEG files, but it doesn't look like that it can play streaming audios.
I am very new to this area, so more detailed explanation will be extremely appreciated. Thank you so much!!!
P.S. a solution/library in C++ is preferred but anything else would help as well. I am working on linux.
The browser should be able to do this natively, no? Firefox can do this certainly, if you simply give it the correct url of the streaming mjpeg source. The mjpeg stream should be properally formatted.
I figured it out. The proper way of doing it is to use ffmpeg, libav and an RTMP server, such as red5.