Yes, use fragmented MP4. That way you will eventually lose small part of the video at the end.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 23:11 Ben Harper <rogo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm building an open source home video monitoring system, and naturally > this needs to be able to make long recordings from the cameras, and store > them as video files. Right now I'm only supporting h264, and writing into > an MP4 file. This works perfectly, aside from the fact that if the > monitoring system loses power during recording, such that I haven't called > av_write_trailer yet, then the video file is unplayable. > > Is there a way to stream to a video file such that most of it will be > playable, even if the system loses power? > > Thanks, > Ben > _______________________________________________ > Libav-user mailing list > Libav-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > libav-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". >
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