Receiving an ffmpeg video stream outside of the box
I'm successfully creating a video stream with ffmpeg and can 'tune' to that stream on the box that is generating the stream.
My output parameters are:
-vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -f mpegts udp://0.0.0.0:1234
I've tried this on a dedicated Ubuntu box and on a Ubuntu VM running under VirtualBox and in both cases I can use VLC to open and view the stream with media->open Network Stream and udp://@1234 as the URL.
I've setup port forwarding in VirtualBox and am able to SSH to the virtual machine, but I cannot receive the stream - even if I put the VirtualBox virtual adapter IP in the URL in VLC instead of 0.0.0.0.
As the above may be a problem with doing this via VirtualBox I have also tried this with another dedicated Ubuntu machine and connected direct NIC to NIC between that Ubuntu machine and my Windows laptop. But I Still can't receive the stream on the windows laptop even though I am connected and can ssh int the box (proving network connectivity is good).
I've also tried this on a Debian box with no UI, but obviously on that box I cant confirm that I can receive the stream locally either as no UI means no VLC.
Ultimately I want to stream this content multicast, but right now I'd be happy just to get it working unicast.
What am I missing?
(If you can also tell me whether or simply configuring a NIC with a multicast address and changing my ffmpeg command to use the multicast address in the udp URL is all I need to do to make this multicast that woudl be great. I suspect there is more to it than that, though).
ffmpeg vlc-media-player streaming video-streaming
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I'm successfully creating a video stream with ffmpeg and can 'tune' to that stream on the box that is generating the stream.
My output parameters are:
-vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -f mpegts udp://0.0.0.0:1234
I've tried this on a dedicated Ubuntu box and on a Ubuntu VM running under VirtualBox and in both cases I can use VLC to open and view the stream with media->open Network Stream and udp://@1234 as the URL.
I've setup port forwarding in VirtualBox and am able to SSH to the virtual machine, but I cannot receive the stream - even if I put the VirtualBox virtual adapter IP in the URL in VLC instead of 0.0.0.0.
As the above may be a problem with doing this via VirtualBox I have also tried this with another dedicated Ubuntu machine and connected direct NIC to NIC between that Ubuntu machine and my Windows laptop. But I Still can't receive the stream on the windows laptop even though I am connected and can ssh int the box (proving network connectivity is good).
I've also tried this on a Debian box with no UI, but obviously on that box I cant confirm that I can receive the stream locally either as no UI means no VLC.
Ultimately I want to stream this content multicast, but right now I'd be happy just to get it working unicast.
What am I missing?
(If you can also tell me whether or simply configuring a NIC with a multicast address and changing my ffmpeg command to use the multicast address in the udp URL is all I need to do to make this multicast that woudl be great. I suspect there is more to it than that, though).
ffmpeg vlc-media-player streaming video-streaming
asked Feb 4 at 17:04
Fat MonkFat Monk
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I'm successfully creating a video stream with ffmpeg and can 'tune' to that stream on the box that is generating the stream.
My output parameters are:
-vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -f mpegts udp://0.0.0.0:1234
I've tried this on a dedicated Ubuntu box and on a Ubuntu VM running under VirtualBox and in both cases I can use VLC to open and view the stream with media->open Network Stream and udp://@1234 as the URL.
I've setup port forwarding in VirtualBox and am able to SSH to the virtual machine, but I cannot receive the stream - even if I put the VirtualBox virtual adapter IP in the URL in VLC instead of 0.0.0.0.
As the above may be a problem with doing this via VirtualBox I have also tried this with another dedicated Ubuntu machine and connected direct NIC to NIC between that Ubuntu machine and my Windows laptop. But I Still can't receive the stream on the windows laptop even though I am connected and can ssh int the box (proving network connectivity is good).
I've also tried this on a Debian box with no UI, but obviously on that box I cant confirm that I can receive the stream locally either as no UI means no VLC.
Ultimately I want to stream this content multicast, but right now I'd be happy just to get it working unicast.
What am I missing?
(If you can also tell me whether or simply configuring a NIC with a multicast address and changing my ffmpeg command to use the multicast address in the udp URL is all I need to do to make this multicast that woudl be great. I suspect there is more to it than that, though).
ffmpeg vlc-media-player streaming video-streaming
asked Feb 4 at 17:04
Fat MonkFat Monk
1014
I'm successfully creating a video stream with ffmpeg and can 'tune' to that stream on the box that is generating the stream.
My output parameters are:
-vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -f mpegts udp://0.0.0.0:1234
I've tried this on a dedicated Ubuntu box and on a Ubuntu VM running under VirtualBox and in both cases I can use VLC to open and view the stream with media->open Network Stream and udp://@1234 as the URL.
I've setup port forwarding in VirtualBox and am able to SSH to the virtual machine, but I cannot receive the stream - even if I put the VirtualBox virtual adapter IP in the URL in VLC instead of 0.0.0.0.
As the above may be a problem with doing this via VirtualBox I have also tried this with another dedicated Ubuntu machine and connected direct NIC to NIC between that Ubuntu machine and my Windows laptop. But I Still can't receive the stream on the windows laptop even though I am connected and can ssh int the box (proving network connectivity is good).
I've also tried this on a Debian box with no UI, but obviously on that box I cant confirm that I can receive the stream locally either as no UI means no VLC.
Ultimately I want to stream this content multicast, but right now I'd be happy just to get it working unicast.
What am I missing?
(If you can also tell me whether or simply configuring a NIC with a multicast address and changing my ffmpeg command to use the multicast address in the udp URL is all I need to do to make this multicast that woudl be great. I suspect there is more to it than that, though).
ffmpeg vlc-media-player streaming video-streaming
ffmpeg vlc-media-player streaming video-streaming
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