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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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TCP connection refused when using ffserver / ffmpeg

I am getting a "TCP connection to localhost:8090 failed: Connection refused" error when trying to use ffserver on Ubuntu 10.04LTS Desktop. I am typing: ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -r 30000/1001 -i /dev/video0 -f avi -vcodec mjpeg -r…
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HTTP Live Streaming, FFMPEG & FFSERVER, and iPhone OS 3

In iPhone OS 3, Apple has introduced HTTP Live Streaming which should allow live streaming of video from the internet. I am currently operating a webcam, which feeds into my server, and is then converted into a flv stream by ffmpeg, and streamed…
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record a video with isight using ffmpeg

So to record webcam video with ffmpeg on linux you may use something like... ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 out.avi But on a mac this doesn't work, so i was wondering how do you record with the isight with ffmpeg on a mac? I've…
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Is there anyone who can successfully run real time streaming with ffserver?

I hope to stream my video camera and audio mic. using ffserver. ffserver says it could do such, but I just can't find any working source? If someone knows, could you please show me how it's done?
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How do i play a stream with QMediaPlayer

I have set up a server and video streaming so that I can connect to the stream with ffplay using the following command line: ffplay rtmp:///path Is it possible to use QMediaPlayer QMediaContent or something to connect to this stream? Or maybe…
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ffmpeg 2.4.2 concatenate mp4 files

I am trying to concatenate some mp4 files one after another. I execute the following: ffmpeg -i concat:1.mp4\|2.mp4\|3.mp4\|4.mp4 -c copy final_output.mp4 But always get the message "[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x148d420] Found duplicated MOOV Atom.…
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How to combine multiple ffmpeg streams into a single 4x4 collage?

I have a server with 16 video capture card channels coming into it and want to stream them with ffmpeg, is it possible to have another stream going out that is a 4x4 collage of the 16 unique channels? Edit: Adding a bounty since no working answer…
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What would be the equivalent to /dev/video0 in OSX Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro (integrated iSight Camera)

I'm trying to do a live video stream of the webcam with ffserver and ffmpeg. I've found some resources on the net (#1 and #2), which more or less do the same thing. I'm on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.5. The webcam is an iSight integrated camera.…
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancer is not closing the connection to the server

I have an EC2 instance with Apache as a reverse proxy and ffserver as a streaming server. There is an ELB (Classic) in front of the EC2 instance which works as an SSL termination point. Apache configuration is rather simple: …
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FFServer streaming H.264 from Logitech C920 without re-encoding

I'm trying to broadcast a native .H264 webcam feed from a Logitech C920 webcam in realtime from an Odroid device (a robot) via ffserver running on a separate server (CentOS 7.1) to users' browser without reeconding the .H264 video feed. Having a…
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How can I configure ffserver to support rtmp instead of http?

I grab the image from my camera using ffmpeg and the following command: ffmpeg -y -f vfwcap -r 25 -i 0 http://10.172.180.235:8090/feed2.ffm and on other machine (with the ip mentioned above) I have the ffserver running with the following config…
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How to stream all videos in a folder?

Hi i want to stream videos over web using ffserver. i got this link as reference. Now what i am not able to figure out is how to pass a folder(which content all videos i want to stream) as input to stream all videos. I also want add more videos…
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ffmpeg stream rc buffer underflow

At the moment I'm setting up a screen-sharing platform with the opensource tool ffmpeg / ffserver. At the beginning of the sharing everything is fine. After around 1 1/2 minutes I get the following exception in the output. [flv @ 0x3a47aa0] rc…
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av_interleaved_write_frame(): Connection reset by peer mjpeg : What is wrong with mjpeg stream, ffserver and ffplay?

I'm creating mjpeg stream from image files using ffmpeg and write it to ffserver's feed: sudo ffmpeg -loop 1 -i fon.jpeg -vcodec mjpeg -f mjpeg http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm ffmpeg version 2.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built…
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Stream from MP4 file over RTSP with ffserver

I'm trying to stream a mp4 file over RTSP using ffserver with no luck so far. I just want to stream directly from the file, without feeding from ffmpeg (no transcoding involved). But I've made it work with mpg video. Here is my ffserver config…
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