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Old 08-09-2011, 03:09 PM
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Re: Use ffserver, ffmpeg, rtmpdump, VLC to convert live RTMP stream into UDP multicas


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Originally Posted by secretsquirrel View Post
I had to look into ffserver a bit because the documentation is fairly sparse compared to ffmpeg, but I don't think this will work unless I'm reading this all wrong.

The target playback devices are a couple of IPTV set top boxes, so I need these streams bent into standard MPEG-TS UDP or RTP multicasts. This seems to be packing them up for an on-demand reflector service. Unfortunately, I think these little boxes are too dumb to know what to do with that.
The ffserver configs I posted will multicast using native RTP format. Clients need to retrieve the SDP info from the http URL in order to read the stream parameters. I'm not sure about muxing in MPEG-TS first, haven't tried that, but vlc was able to play from this ffserver with no trouble.
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