How to broadcast a live stream via FFMPEG?

Question

I'm very new to ffmpeg. Consider http://example.com/live is a remote stream source. I want to get the stream from that source and then broadcast it as MPEG-TS, HLS and RTMP to my users. I know ffmpeg can send data to a rtmp/udp/tcp server. But the whole process is ambiguous to me.

Long story short, how can I get the stream from remote source and then broadcast it as MPEG-TS, HLS and RTMP?

Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '22 at 00:13

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You could use a media server to covert protocols and serve players, please read this post, to which push by ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i http://xxx -c copy -f flv rtmp://server/live/xxx

Note that RTMP does not work for H5 player, HTTP-FLV or WebRTC is a optional for low latency live streaming, or HLS/DASH for normal latency, please read this post.

answered Mar 07 '22 at 00:13

Winlin

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Thanks. I couldn't upvote cause it needs at least 15 reputation. – Mike woods Mar 07 '22 at 08:53
Never mind, it's really OK :) – Winlin Mar 08 '22 at 01:12

How to broadcast a live stream via FFMPEG?

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