Please provide procedure or link on how to do it.
@JackNJack and @sujitrp
The instructions are in the first post of this thread, however I never bothered to write a guide on how to autostart it as I was planing what I will recommend you do instead. The Ipcamera Binding can now do ffmpeg conversions and serve the files. This works on all platforms not just Linux and is easier to setup. See the readme file for the binding.
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Thanks @matt1 for detailing this! I have 5 Dahua cams (6 m/pix each) to setup on my openhab panel.
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Hi Matt
Does this make use of Intel Quick Sync hardware decoding for H264/H265? Thx
@dastrix80
ffmpeg does use Quick Sync as well as many other forms of de/encoding. See their website for info on this… Most of the things that the ipcamera binding does not encode it only transforms the cameras packets into another package so it does not use much CPU. But if you are using this method in this thread to convert h264 into mjpeg then hardware de/encoding will help.
@OpenHabitat
if you have dahua then make sure you use the IpCamera binding by searching this forum as it give you the smart alarms and more…
Hi Matt
Cool. Wanting to display a number of streams in a widget without destroying the CPU of the OH2 box. Ill give it a go!
Im using your binding already to display a number of streams but its the older version without the ffmpeg
H264 turns into HLS streams with low cpu so try that format. Works great on apple browsers and app and it can work in other browsers if you google how to install a plugin for your browser. For cameras that only give low res mjpeg streams this allows high res via HLS format.
Also I will try a newer netty version for your errors in the next build. The mjpeg stream does not use ffmpeg.
I recommend using mpeg-dash (the w3c standardisation of HLS) since that will work on all browsers. Nginx also has full support for creating the dash segments. I’m doing that here https://github.com/imaginator/system/tree/master/salt/motion/files
That is what I am looking into at the moment, what browsers have u used it in and do they need a plugin for support?
As long as they support https://caniuse.com/#feat=mediasource you have no need for a plugin. See: https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/
Hi Matt
I no longer have the error since moving to a QNAP Virtual machine actually (or cpu issues that im aware of)
Cheers
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Successfully displaying rtsp video but if there are movements on the picture, the picture will pixelized. How to solve this?
Try adding an extra option to use tcp instead of UDP, it needs to be done BEFORE the -i like below…
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i ...........normal command along here
There is an improvement but still the pixelized during movement. What must be the problem. Here is the log output:
ffmpeg version 3.2.12-1~deb9u1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 6.3.0 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 20170516
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=‘1~deb9u1’ --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf --incdir=/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libebur128 --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencv --enable-libx264 --enable-shared
libavutil 55. 34.101 / 55. 34.101
libavcodec 57. 64.101 / 57. 64.101
libavformat 57. 56.101 / 57. 56.101
libavdevice 57. 1.100 / 57. 1.100
libavfilter 6. 65.100 / 6. 65.100
libavresample 3. 1. 0 / 3. 1. 0
libswscale 4. 2.100 / 4. 2.100
libswresample 2. 3.100 / 2. 3.100
libpostproc 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100
[mp3 @ 0x24016e0] Header missing
Input #0, rtsp, from ‘rtsp://192.168.1.36:8554/unicast’:
Metadata:
title : LIVE555 Streaming Media v2017.10.28
comment : LIVE555 Streaming Media v2017.10.28
Duration: N/A, start: 0.199689, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p(progressive), 1280x720, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, mono, s16p, 64 kb/s
Output #0, ffm, to ‘http://127.0.0.1:8090/camera1.ffm’:
Metadata:
title : LIVE555 Streaming Media v2017.10.28
comment : LIVE555 Streaming Media v2017.10.28
creation_time : now
encoder : Lavf57.56.101
Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuv420p, 640x360, q=2-31, 8192 kb/s, 25 fps, 1000k tbn, 10 tbc
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc57.64.101 mjpeg
Side data:
cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/8192000 buffer size: 0 vbv_delay: -1
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 → #0:0 (h264 (native) → mjpeg (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
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Your CPU can not reach realtime aka 1x speed. You will need to do one or more of the following…
- Buy bigger CPU
- Enable hardware acceleration for ffmpeg instead of a bigger CPU, see their website, google and faq pages.
- Lower the framerate from 25fps to a lower value in the cameras setup and make sure it is a round multiple of what ffmpeg is trying to create.
- Make the FPS the same in the camera as to what the ffmpeg is trying to create.
- Get a camera that can create mjpeg streams natively.
- Use HLS streaming instead as it does not transcode the h264. The ipcamera binding creates a HLS stream.
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Thank you matt1, solves my problem. Just lowered my FPS to 5. Everything is normal now.
Hello again matt1,
I have persistent error after running successfully for about some time. Here is the log:
[rtsp @ 0x5d75d0] CSeq 8 expected, 0 received.
At ffserver:
[GET] “/camera1.mjpg HTTP/1.1” 200 108
please help.
I’m trying to do this with a hacked Dafang camera but I’m getting this error. Any ideas?
HTTP error 503 Server too busy
http://127.0.0.1:8090/camera1.ffm: Server returned 5XX Server Error reply
I had the same problem.
For me worked increasing the MaxBandwidth to 10000
I believe I have seen this before and it was solved by adding this to the INPUT options which I will edit and add this to my first post so you can use it as an example…
Issue is your network is not delivering the UDP packets in time so using TCP instead fixes the issue.
-rtsp_transport tcp