> Some live streams I download from are sometimes interrupted for a short time > of > 1-2 minutes and when I use ffmpeg for download it quits at these occurrences. > > Is there some way to enforce the "-t 3800 " argument so it really waits all > that > time if the video stops before aborting the download? > > Or else some other argument that can set an idle-timeout value to say 300 s or > so, such that the video download is not aborted but instead just paused until > the stream returns or when the -t argument has been reached?
What protocol/URL are the streams you're using? I have the opposite problem, where data stops arriving and ffmpeg will sit there for hours doing nothing, when I want it to exit so I can detect the interruption in a script and restart it. I'm wondering whether you're using a TCP connection and it's the TCP connection that drops out. In my case it's both UDP and a local V4L2 device, and both those will sit there forever and then resume immediately if new data eventually arrives. Cheers, 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".
