i have a raw h264 stream coming in from cameras with a custom API. data gets put into a callback function in my c code.
i need to wrap this as mp4. i'm using ffmpeg to do this now, but only after the h264es file has been written and closed, so very time consuming on a beaglebone-like processor. i have been trying to write this data to a named pipe and feed that to ffmpeg but can not get this to work. maybe i'm not opening/closing pipes properly, it hangs. or not specifying the piping properly for ffmpeg. is it possible to feed the buffered data more directly to ffmpeg? or, how do i set up the named pipe to work properly? first i'm opening the fifo like this g_fifoname="/tmp/fifocam1.h264"; mkfifo(g_fifoname, 0666); // make the fifos fd_fifo[ch+brd*2] = open(g_fifoname, O_RDWR); then, i'm calling ffmpeg like this, at this moment anyway. trying many things. char* execargs[]={PATH_TO_FFMPEG,"-re","-y","-framerate","30","-f","h264","-video_size","1920x1080","-i",g_fifname,"-c:v","copy","-an",pathname, (char*)0}; i probably got the ffmpeg call wrong. argh. i open the fifo first, then start ffmpeg. when streaming is stopped i close fifo's, then close ffmpeg output file. ffmpeg is so powerful and frustrating to wrangle. thanks all, _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".