Questions tagged [ffmpeg]
FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line program for transcoding multimedia files.
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Optimize cost of high CPU usage tasks on Google Cloud Run
I am running a media API on Cloud Run and, while it is running fine, the cost optimization of that service is desastrous because the CPU are very much underutilized for each instances.
Here's what my ...
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Best GPU to get for encoding / decoding multiple video streams and files? [closed]
I need to encode / decode multiple videos (both live and pre-recorded video files) at the same time but I'm not sure which GPU to get. I'll be using ffmpeg for the video manipulation.
Ideally I'd like ...
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Cannot Compile FFMPEG with libfreetype on Windows/Msys2
I am having issues compiling ffmpeg with libfreetype with this commmand on windows MSYS2:
./configure --pkg-config-flags="--static" --enable-libvpl --enable-libopenh264 --enable-...
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Two processes have different behavior while running with the same command and same binary file
There's an app in Ubuntu server, which runs a FFMPEG instance. That instance keeps working fine.
But when I run the same command with the same binary executable in terminal, it exits after 3 or 4 ...
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AlmaLinux cannot install ffmpeg
New install of AlmaLinux 8 (r8.7 (Stone Smilodon)). I ran the following in preparation to install ffmpeg:
sudo dnf -y install https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch....
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How to avoid critical security issues introduced by ffmpeg? which seems to be a dependency of DeepFace for running opencv in linux environment
I was trying to run DeepFace in docker and when I ran the container I got an error related to OpenCV.
Following online suggestions, I downloaded the FFmpeg package and it resolved the OpenCV error and ...
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Cannot get FFMPEG in SNAP to convert videos to MP4
I recently installed FFMPEG with SNAP. For some reason, the regular ffmpeg install isn't working on this particular server. The file path that I have been using with my previous ffmpeg installation is ...
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Why can push mp4 into a rtmp stream instead of rtsp stream?
I build stream server with nginx, and can push the MP4 into a rtmp stream with :
ffmpeg -re -i /mnt/hls/m7.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -vprofile baseline -g 30 -acodec aac -strict -2 -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1/...
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How to convert any video to mp4 with php, ffmpeg and CentOS [closed]
I have been converting videos for about a year working in localhost on a Mac. The path is, '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' and it has always worked fine. Recently, I installed ffmpeg on my server, with a ...
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ffmpeg rtsp server not stopping when peer disconnect
There is an ffmpeg instance running as a server on a VPS, that converts RTSP video to HLS and serves it to the web (using Apache). The RTSP video comes from a computer somewhere else (in another town ...
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Nginx with rtmp module and ffmpeg adaptive stream is not creating master dash manifest
I have a working setup of nginx with the rtmp module working like a charm creating live streams with both dash and hsl. No problem so far.
When I try to enable ffmpeg transcoding for adaptive ...
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ffmpeg not able to yum
I am on CentOS8. I am facing similar situation as in this question, tried everything suggest in answers but could not solve.
Why I can't install ffmpeg on CentOS 7
I am trying to install ffmpeg-...
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Best AWS option for occasional video encoding with FFMPEG? [closed]
I have an app which receives a video file and a text from a front-end form, creates a video intro with text, merges this intro with 1 to 2 hour video. Everything is being encoded using ffmpeg, after ...
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Cannot run bash script via php possible permissions
I have ffmpeg installed on a CentOS 7 machine running a standard LAMP stack. I can run ffmpeg fine by itself in a terminal, like so:
ffmpeg -i "rtsp://admin:[email protected]/play2.sdp" ...
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Video Encoding/Trans coding Conversion Dedicated Server [closed]
I am looking to buy a dedicated server for my video project, I have multiple video upload at the same time each video I upload is about 2-3 GB in size and about 2-3 hours in length (TV Series/Movies). ...
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ffmpeg rtsp to hls streaming choppy and stops automatically
I use ffmpeg + nginx/rtmp to restream video from ip cam to web page. The command I use is:
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -i rtsp://admin:[email protected]/ -f flv -c:v ...
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I cannot add Centos 7 repository to install FFMPEG
When trying to use this command to add ffmpeg repository in Centos 7, I tried to add the repository using this command:
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-...
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Command FFMPEG works if runned from terminal but not from NGINX
i have a code like this
/home/ubuntu/bin/ffmpeg -re -v verbose -i rtmp://localhost:1935/live/title_event \
-http_persistent 1 -http_user_agent Custom-agent -vf scale=w=640:h=360:...
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Streaming audio using switchable sources without killing streaming uplink (Poor Man's Barix Extreamer?)
Okay, so I'm the lone IT staff in a radio station and I've got a headscratcher (for me). We had a pair of PCs streaming our audio (received back from over-the-air, output through a monitor into the ...
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FFMPEG-generated DASH Manifest for Livestream is invalid, but is still playable on some players
I am trying to embed an RTSP stream from an IP Camera into a website. I've found out, that embedding an RTSP directly is tricky and resourceful, also it requires the user to take some crucial actions (...
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How to save the converted file to another system by ffmpeg [closed]
i want to developing a service of online converter in local network by ffmpeg.
the service receives address of file to converting and output address for put converted file to it.
can ffmpeg do ...
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Bash script ffmpeg pic to video not working but does in command line
This works in command line for a sequence of jpg to convert to a video.
cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 5 -i - -s 1280x720 ./HD720_out.mp4
but doesn't work (except for first jpg) ...
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Diagnosing ffmpeg high server load
Would anyone be able to help with info on why I have such a high server load but total CPU usage is under 50% and loads of free RAM?
I'm running 60 instances of ffmpeg on a Ryzen 1700X.
Here's a ...
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Why I can't install ffmpeg on CentOS 7
I want to install ffmpeg to my CentOS 7 server but I can't, it say we missing some libs that I can't find where and how to install them.
This is command i used and the error occured:
[root@www13 ~]# ...
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how to run 10 process and montring it
i have about 10-15 FFmpeg Process
for streaming server like this:
ffmpeg -i "http://ip/play/a03i" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f flv "rtmp://ip:80/APP/Name"
am use the Nginx-rtmp module to run it ...
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ffmpeg continue listen port
I'm trying to configure restream server, ffmpeg listen on rtmp://ip:port and output to few stream services(youtube, twitch...etc) the problem is when I stop OBS streaming(using this on local pc) ...
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How to save stream in mp4 format?
By default nginx rtmp module records video stream in .flv format if record option is enabled, but I need .mp4
I found that video can be converted to .mp4 when record has finished with ...
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How do I make SMB faster on Windows?
My problem is the throughput of FFmpeg is severely limited by the speed of SMB performance. Using Wireshark I found out that FFmpeg writes are sent to my Synology SMB share in 500 byte packets with ...
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ffmpeg with x11grab results in black screen in vlc playback
I've installed ffmpeg on an AWS instance and have been unsuccessfuly trying to record an X session, to which I've connected over x11rdp, with the client being Microsoft Remote Desktop.
Here's the ...
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Unable to install ffmpeg-php on Ubuntu
When I searched for this error, it seems to be more common in CentOS but I'm using Ubuntu 15.10.
My issue is that I've followed this installation on ffmpeg-php's site and I've ran into an error when ...
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FFMPEG works on Console but doesn't work in PHP script on Ubuntu
I have this aplication where I need to convert video files to MP4 and then compress it. I'm trying to use FFMPEG to get this to work. Tried the command lines in the console and it works great
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configure nginx to autolaunch ffmpeg
I would like ffmpeg to be autolaunched from nginx when it starts and provide a converted dash stream for the users who visit my webserver.
Right now I can go to:
http://localhost:18080/dash/twitch....
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Using SoX for noise reduction on AAC in an MPEG-4 container
Here are my business needs:
Server receives a noisy noisy.m4a file
Server creates a noise-reduced noiseless.m4a file for further processing
I want this noise-reduction to be as fast as possible; ...
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Restart ffmpeg process streaming rtmp video if it fails using shell script
We use ffmpeg to forward streams live. Often due to unknown reasons or due to the stream stopping temporarily the command stops running in the background.
What's the best way to monitor and continue ...
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How can I access comand line like cmd.exe on my dedicated linux server? [closed]
I have installed the ffmpeg by composer in my local server(windows7) and everything is working good now the site is live on internet (server CENTOS 6.7 x86_64 kvm) and I need to install it to the ...
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pyffmpeg installation on Ubuntu fails with Cython related errors
I'm failing in pyffmpeg installation on Ubuntu.
Cython installation seems to be correct:
$ sudo python setup.py install
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Adding Cython 0.22.1 to easy-install.pth file
Installing cython script to /...
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How to enable ffmpeg php extention in Cent OS 6.5 server with php 5.5
I need to create a screenshot from a video.
I have followed this tutorial to do the initial setup in Windows 8, php 5.3.
I downloaded the ffmpeg from here for 64 bit operating system.
I followed ...
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ffmpeg mp4 and webm files save to standard folder but only webm to mounted folder
So i am running an ffmpeg command on my linux server using the php exec command :
exec("(nohup nice -n 19 " . $ffmpegPath . " -y -i " . $srcFile . " -f mp4 -pass 1 -passlogfile " . $video_pass_log . "...
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Sox pipe to wav2png: FFMpeg equivalent?
I have this command I need to run as a background task on my server:
sox some-audio-file.foo -c 1 -t wav - | wav2png -w -o some-audio-file.png /dev/stdin
But I already have ffmpeg custom-compiled ...
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MySql stops running in combination with Laravel Queue, Supervisor, and FFMPEg
After setting up queue listener to process uploaded videos with FFMPEG, I've come back to the server several times to find that MySql has stopped running. I checked drive space and it's about 77% used ...
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Reduce outgoing bandwidth in ffmpeg
I have a server in Rackspace with some ffmpeg processes listening to audio streaming. Off course when listening to streamings the incoming network traffic is high, and this is ok. But I noticed that ...
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How to create a RTMP server on linux (Gentoo)
I am trying to create a RTMP server to stream video files from my Linux server to the internet/network. I have been able to successfully use ffmpeg to stream to other RTMP servers like youtube, but ...
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how to check ffmpeg if install on centos/php [closed]
hi there how can I be sure that ffmpeg is install in my server...
I tried this php code to check:
<?php
$ffmpeg = trim(shell_exec('which ffmpeg')); // or better yet:
$ffmpeg = trim(...
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keepalive type and frequency in ffmpeg
My company has a bunch of IP cameras that we distribute - specifically Grandstream - and the manufacturer has changed their firmware. The normal keepalive that ffmpeg uses for the rtsp streams ( ...
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CentOS 6.4 and Audio Conversion
I'm having issues with setting up a Centos 6.4 server to convert audio tracks needed for a project I'm currently involved in.
So users of a site I've been working on can Upload tracks, but because ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade php 5.4 missing php5-ffmpeg [closed]
I updated php to version 5.4, through the repository ppa:ondrej/php5, but now I can not install the package php5-ffmpeg because it gives me this error: php5-ffmpeg: Depends: phpapi-20090626
also if I ...
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Ubuntu install php5-ffmpeg
When I try to install php5-ffmpeg:
apt-get install php5-ffmpeg
I get an error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php5-ffmpeg : Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs
As I understand my php5-...
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Using 'which' command in cron job
I have a cron job that runs once a day on a Linux server and in the script it executes there is a test:
# Validate ffmpeg is installed
if [ $(which ffmpeg | grep -c "ffmpeg") -eq 0 ]; then
echo "...
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ffmpeg simple RTMP streaming
I am trying to launch up a rtmp transcoder server using ffmpeg; that receives udp MPEG-TS streams as input, transcodes it; and generates an rtmp output to a URL, that can be accessed by users to ...
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Starting ffserver on macos - Permission Denied [closed]
I am trying to start ffserver on Snow leopard.
dev:~ Shashank$ ffserver -d -f /usr/etc/ffserver.config
I get this in my terminal.
ffserver version 1.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg ...
