Begin stream simple mp4 with ffserver

Question

I want to stream a mp4 and for this I read about ffserver.
So I search and read ffserver documentations but still cant stream a simple file.
For this I done these:

Answer 1

You can't stream mp4 vidoes using ffserver because it contains global metadata in the file header, which makes random stream access impossible. You can choose another format like webm or use MPEG-2 Transport Streams (Apple's HLS).See https://superuser.com/questions/563591/streaming-mp4-with-ffmpeg

HTTPPort 8090
HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 100000
CustomLog -
<Feed streamwebm.ffm>
  File /tmp/streamwebm.ffm
  FileMaxSize 50M
  ACL allow localhost
  ACL allow 128.199.149.46
  #ACL allow 127.0.0.1
  ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.0.255
</Feed>
<Stream streamwebm>
#in command line run : ffmpeg -i yourvideo.mp4 -c:v libvpx -cpu-used 4 -threads 8    http://localhost:8090/streamwebm.ffm
Feed streamwebm.ffm
Format webm

# Video Settings
VideoFrameRate 30
VideoSize 624x368

# Audio settings
AudioCodec libvorbis
AudioSampleRate 48000
AVOptionAudio flags +global_header

MaxTime 0
AVOptionVideo me_range 16
AVOptionVideo qdiff 4
AVOptionVideo qmin 4
AVOptionVideo qmax 40
#AVOptionVideo good
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header

# Streaming settings
PreRoll 10
StartSendOnKey

Metadata author "author"
Metadata copyright "copyright"
Metadata title "Web app name"
Metadata comment "comment"

</Stream>

#stream for flv format
<Feed streamflv.ffm>
  File /tmp/streamflv.ffm
  FileMaxSize 50M
  ACL allow localhost
  ACL allow 192.168.88.89
  #ACL allow 127.0.0.1
  ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Feed>

<Stream streamflv>
  Feed streamflv.ffm
  Format flv
  #Video Settings

  VideoCodec libx264
  VideoFrameRate 30
  VideoSize 640x360
  VideoBitRate 1000

  # Audio settings
  AudioCodec libfaac
  AudioSampleRate 22050
  AudioChannels 2 #this is creating problem
  AVOptionAudio flags +global_header

  MaxTime 0
  AVOptionVideo me_range 16
  AVOptionVideo qdiff 4
  AVOptionVideo qmin 4
  AVOptionVideo qmax 40
  #AVOptionVideo good
  AVOptionVideo flags +global_header

  # Streaming settings
  PreRoll 10
  StartSendOnKey

</Stream>

<Stream stat.html>
  Format status
  ACL allow localhost
  ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Stream>

# Redirect index.html to the appropriate site

<Redirect index.html>
  URL http://yoururl.com
</Redirect>

inside your video tag <video> <source src="http://localhost:8090/streamwebm"> </video>

you can edit the parameters to suit your needs