That's a very interesting subject (to me at least). I would like to embed automatic (or human generated, depending on the budget) subtitles to help hearing-impaired people grab most of the talk in our conference. I am producing H.264 and sending it (for the time being) to YouTube, so your request is not far from my needs. I will follow this subject with great attention. Thanks.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:20 PM Michael Shaffer <mikeshaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I noticed your Youtube streams only last a day or so. I have a Python > script I made that keeps the ffmpeg process sending to Youtube. I have 5 IP > cameras going to youtube and they have been going about 9 months without > the stream ending. Anyways, if you want I could show you how the script > works. You would just have to change the stream keys and the bitrate that > each camera uses, so it knows when to restart the stream. > > Michael > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:17 AM Steven Kan <ste...@kan.org> wrote: > > > First time poster, so please be kind if I ask anything stupid! > > > > I have a live BeeCam feed on YouTube: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0jx2Z6qbc5Co8x8Kyisag/live < > > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0jx2Z6qbc5Co8x8Kyisag/live> > > > > using YouTube’s “Stream Now” feature, which is distinct from a streaming > > “event” because I don’t have to schedule it. Whenever I’m pushing video to > > YouTube, the channel goes live. > > > > The stream is supplied by a Raspberry Pi running as an ffmpeg “relay > > server,” e.g. it’s not doing any transcoding; it’s just repacking an RTSP > > stream from an off-the-shelf camera: > > > > ./ffmpeg -re -thread_queue_size 512 -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp:// > > anonymous:password@192.168.1.11:554" -f concat -safe 0 -i playlist.txt > > -vcodec copy -acodec copy -t 01:47:02 -f flv "rtmp:// > > a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/my-youtube-streaming-key” > > > > The -t and playlist.txt are because my camera lacks and audio feed, and YT > > requires an audio stream, so I have a collection of royalty-free mp3s in > > the playlist, and I’m wrapping this command in a loop. > > > > When I run this on my RPi 2, CPU utilization for ffmpeg is <<<<10%, which > > is what I want, because I will have up to 3 instances of ffmpeg pushing 3 > > camera streams to 3 YT channels during honey bee swarm season in Spring. > > > > What I want to do is add some captions to the video as soft subtitles, > > e.g. my location, the present temperature, and the weather forecast. I > > don’t have enough CPU on the Pi to burn these into the video stream. > > > > Is this possible in ffmpeg and with YouTube’s “stream now” feature? > > > > I can get ffmpeg to put a soft subtitle into a local .mkv file: > > > > ./ffmpeg -i video.mp4" -i SubtitleTest.srt -acodec copy -scodec copy > > out.mkv > > > > but I changing the output to .m4v, mp4, or .flv results in errors such as: > > > > Subtitle codec 'ass' for stream 2 is not compatible with FLV > > > > and pushing mkv to YouTube via: > > > > ./ffmpeg -i video.mp4" -acodec copy -f mkv "rtmp:// > > a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/my-youtube-streaming-key” > > > > returns: > > > > Requested output format 'mkv' is not a suitable output format > > rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/my-youtube-streaming-key <rtmp:// > > a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/my-youtube-streaming-key> > > > > Am I doing this fundamentally wrong? Or is this just not possible? If it’s > > possible I will continue reading documentation until I get it working!!! > > > > Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ffmpeg-user mailing list > > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". -- Bruno Verachten _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
