Thank you Michael, I had read amongst the many pages that a copy would produce better results and without re-encoding however until now I have had zero success with it and went back to bare basics to try to get it to work at all.
With further testing and your additions, I am now able to get a decent stream using simply using the string you first mentioned with the copy. I tried using the -re rtsp_transport however it comes up with an error about option re cannot be applied to output url rtsp_transport, I'm looking into that now. Unfortunately, I don't have an nvidia card as I am working with a virtual machine for it at present, however this is good information for future knowledge. Thank you again =) 1 Step closer. Dave On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:55 AM Michael Shaffer <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see why you aren't using > > ffmpeg -i rtsp://172.x.x.x -c:v copy http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm > > Then it wouldn't even re-encode the video and would use less CPU and have > higher quality. > > Also when I stream my IP cameras I put these two switches at the front of > the command > > ffmpeg -re -rtsp_transport -i rtsp://172.x.x.x -c:v copy > http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm > > Also, if you happen to have an Nvidia graphics card you might be able to > use nvenc instead of libx264 to shift the processing from your CPU to your > GPU (wish I had realized this a while ago). > > I haven't used ffserver so I can't give any input about that. > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Dave Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am trying to use ffmpeg and ffserver on Ubuntu to take in an RTSP > stream > > and then send it back out where I will be ingesting it into a Genetec > > Security Centre server. > > > > Short version as to why I want to do this is because the RTSP input > source > > does not handshake correctly with Genetec so it does not initiate the > > stream, but I digress. > > > > I am trying to get the correct settings to make this work however have > had > > limited success. > > > > The input stream is 1440x1080 @ 25fps and I would like to keep as much > > quality intact as possible, can anyone point me in the right direction as > > to what my ffserver.conf and ffmpeg strings should be!?! Thank you. > > > > My current ffmpeg command I use to run it is; > > ffmpeg -i rtsp://172.x.x.x -vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -crf 18 > > http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm > > > > My ffserver.conf has minimal configuration in it, specifying RTSP port > and > > ingest port. > > > > Any help would be amazing to get the config and commands right! > > > > Many thanks! > > > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > > 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". _______________________________________________ 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".
