HTTP Live Streaming, FFMPEG & FFSERVER, and iPhone OS 3

Question

In iPhone OS 3, Apple has introduced HTTP Live Streaming which should allow live streaming of video from the internet. I am currently operating a webcam, which feeds into m

Answer 1

This is quite an old topic, but HLS support, a seemingly new feature of FFmpeg might be useful to someone.

An example use would be as follows:

ffmpeg -i  -c:v libx264 -preset slow -map 0 -an -flags -global_header -f hls -hls_time  

If you would like to do live streaming, this would be another example:

ffmpeg -i  -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -map 0 -an -flags -global_header -f hls -hls_time  -hls_list_size  -hls_wrap  

The -hls_list_size argument limits the number of files in the playlist, and the -hls-wrap argument limits the number of files total and will wrap filenames once it gets to that point (ex: test0.ts, test1.ts... test7.ts, test0.ts, test1.ts... when wrap is 8).

For more information, see the documentation. Please note, the above examples strip out audio with the -an flag, as I personally never needed it.