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I've got a Debian Linux server with a bunch of mkv files that I would like to play from anywhere without directly downloading the files. In other words, I would like to stream them.
I've tried using ffmpeg's ffserver, but I couldn't get it to work. The problem was that it wouldn't show the video, and the stream would cut off after about 18 seconds. This was the config I used for ffserver for that experiment:
Port 5004
BindAddress 10.0.0.1
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 1000
CustomLog -
NoDaemon
<Stream stream.mkv>
Format h264
File "clip.mkv"
VideoCodec libx264
VideoFrameRate 30
VideoBitRate 512
VideoSize 320x240
AVOptionVideo crf 23
AVOptionVideo preset medium
# for more info on crf/preset options, type: x264 --help
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header
AudioCodec aac
Strict -2
AudioBitRate 128
AudioChannels 2
AudioSampleRate 44100
AVOptionAudio flags +global_header
</Stream>
How can I rectify this issue?
Atheuz
Posted 2013-08-31T20:57:01.930
Reputation: 1
to where and to what clients are you wanting to stream? If you are just talking about lan connections, I use samba for the same affect with no particular configuration for video "streaming". just go to the share, and play the file. the file's contents are streamed to ram and are discarded when no longer needed, but not cache to disk. – Frank Thomas – 2013-08-31T21:05:30.573
Frank Thomas: I was thinking about streaming to my iPad over WiFi, and the server is remote but it's got good upload and download. For now I've just been testing on Windows 8 with MPC-HC by taking the stream link and opening that as a file. I'll look into samba. – Atheuz – 2013-08-31T21:21:20.773