On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:21:54 +0100 (CET) Marton Balint <[email protected]> wrote:
> An important thing we miss I think is failover on input and output side. > > Many people use ffmpeg to transcode some kind of network stream to > whatever format, but AFAIK there is no way to specify multiple inputs and > do failover between them if one of them fails / timeouts. Also there is no > way to force an input to gracefully restart/reconnect in case of > timeout or error. > > The same can be said on the output side, if one of the network outputs > blocks or fails for any reason, the other outputs will block or fail too, > which makes ffmpeg unsuitable to stream to two targets simultaneously for > redundancy purposes. A graceful reconnect on timeout or error and > non-blocking outputs would be useful here too. > > This may be implemented as a function of ffmpeg.c or as an input/output > protocol if possible. > > Regards, > Marton Would you be willing to be a mentor for such a project? Could you add this to the project ideas list? <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/ProjectIdeas> _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
