Hi Adam, Have you tried running ffplay with `-loglevel debug` to gleam any more information?
Regards, Arif On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 7:08 PM Adam Nielsen via ffmpeg-user < ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm streaming a video with ffplay on a Raspberry Pi using the hardware > decoder (v4l2_m2m) and the video stream keeps randomly freezing, I am > guessing due to a bug in the hardware decoder implementation. > > When this happens, I must run "killall ffplay". I have configured > systemd to restart ffplay automatically so the streams resume a few > seconds later, until they freeze again anywhere from a few minutes to a > few hours later. > > Rather than having to manually SSH in and terminate ffplay, I am > wondering whether there is a way that ffplay can be told to exit when > the decoder freezes, so that I might have a chance of recovering from > this situation automatically? > > It looks like when the freeze happens, ffplay's memory usage increases > as if it's buffering the incoming stream, so perhaps being able to get > ffplay to quit in this situation might work. > > I have tried to use systemd's configuration to limit ffplay's memory > usage, however it doesn't seem to terminate ffplay when this situation > arises so I am not entirely sure what's going on. > > As a side note, the reason I am assuming this is a hardware bug is > because I am streaming two videos, and when one freezes, so does the > other one. Occasionally I also get corrupted bits of one stream > appearing in the other ffplay window as well, and dmesg reports errors > about the graphics decoder timing out. If I only restart one video > stream I just get the old frozen frame showing up again. I have to > restart both ffplay instances before playback returns to normal. > > Any ideas how to tell ffplay to exit when it no longer receives frames > from the streaming source? > > Many thanks, > Adam. > _______________________________________________ > 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".
