Thanks Moritz, You explanation was helpful.
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Moritz Barsnick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 19:41:10 +0530, Ratheendran R wrote: > > *I am trying to ffmpeg and ffplay commands on ubuntu as below.the ffplay > > <command > gives a permission denied. ffmpeg exits immediatly * > > > > >>>>* ./ffplay -f mpegts unix:///tmp/ff.socket& > > *>>>>* sleep 2&& ./ffmpeg_g -re -i something -vcodec copy -acodec copy > -f > > *>> > > * mpegts unix://tmp/ff.socket > > * > > > > *I am not able to make any progress for some time,please let me know > > if I am missing anything.* > > First of all, your paths to the socket are different: > unix:///tmp/ff.socket > unix://tmp/ff.socket > > Secondly, unlike what the ffmpeg documentation says, it looks like you > need to add *no* extra slashes, so the correct URI is > unix:/tmp/ff.socket > (It shouldn't matter in this case, the OS ignores the extra slashes.) > > Thirdly, with your commands, both commands should give "no such > file or directory", because ffmpeg needs to feed (and create) the > socket first, before ffplay can access it. > > Fourthly, to create a socket, you need to add the "-listen 1" option > to the ffmpeg command line. > > Fifthly, if you launch ffmpeg first and try to put it to the > background, you need to disable its interaction with the terminal, by > adding "-nostdin" (otherwise, it stalls in my attempts). > > I succeeded with this: > > $ ffmpeg -nostdin -f lavfi -i testsrc -f mpegts -listen 1 > unix:/tmp/ffmpeg.socket & ffplay unix:/tmp/ffmpeg.socket > > (ffplay doesn't need "-f mpegts" in this scenario.) > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
