Several issues
-timelimit uses CPU time in seconds, so whenever ffmpeg has used 1800
seconds CPU time on your system. This is not related to the actual
duration of the video, but how much time ffmpeg needs to execute on your
CPU, which is on a modern system a fraction of a second for every second
of video.
Use -t 1800 if you want you recording to stop after an actual duration
of 1800 seconds.
You dit not specify a codec for your output, could be that ffmpeg is
just writing raw (uncrompressed) video in there, which will grow to huge
size very fast.
On 26-06-2021 20:16, S. Helbig via ffmpeg-user wrote:
Hello,
FFMPEG is creating an ever growing output file from a recorded IP cam
stream.
But the acual video is only about 7min.
My input command was:
ffmpeg -loglevel debug -timelimit 1.800 -hide_banner -i
'http://192.168.1.234:567/videostream.cgi?user=USER&pwd=PWD' -y
-segment_time 1.800 /path/to/destination/stream.mp4
There are a few issues with this:
FFMPEG doesn't exit after 1800sec/30min. '-timelimit 1.800' seems to be
ignored (I also tried '1800', same result.)
The video time in the output file does not correspond to 1800sec/30min
despite its size (371 MB this time). This may be due to the
segmentation, so when stopped manually, it may not have completed a segment.
But why is the output file growing then? '-segment_time' should limit
the size of this file = segment.
1800 seconds of .mp4 should correspond to a fixed maximum size...or not?
Stephan
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