I have checked out and compiled the sources from svn as described on the crtmpserver website. (I don't have an explanation for that.) ctmpserver The stream never played in the flash player. The ffmpeg documentation also mentions using ”-intra”, but this did not work. So I have changed the ”-g 60” to ”-g 25” as it seems more appropriate to me and added the ”-me_method zero” as it was considered in the ffmpeg documentation as being faster. I have only experimented a bit to enhance the performance. The ffmpeg command line above was taken from the wowza documentation. It should, however, work as well with any other movie formats ffmpeg understands properly.
In my tests, always is in an AVI container, with DivX/XviD and MP3. In addition, the UDP protokol does not wait for the answer of any receiver like TCP would do. (You should see some ffmpeg output about frames, fps etc.) This is achieved by the ”-re” which makes ffmpeg to read the data with (maximum) the framerate which the movie has. It does not wait for anything to receive the stream, it just pumps the data through port 10000 at the speed the movie should play. This command line simulates a live stream.
(I have split this on several lines for readability.) > ffmpeg -i "" -re -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline The following command line converts to h264/aac, puts it into an TS container and sends it using UDP. Maybe important to note that this is targeted to a Linux server, I don’t know how and if it works with other operating systems. (This is why I have put it in double quotes.) However, it shows the principle and it might be easier to set this up as a first step. I know that there are easier ways to send a media file to some player in a browser and I also know that playing a file is not really live streaming. This tutorial describes the whole “roundtrip” from a media file on your disk to displaying it in a browser. The whole roundtrip is not really described and has its own difficulties. I found that most tutorials only show how to setup the streaming or only show how to get a flash player up and running. The basic idea is to stream TV from v4l2 (and similar), but I also wanted to stream files (movies). I have tried a while to setup a free (open source etc.) live streaming solution which is able to stream “anything” to a flash frontend.
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