TIP: ffserver+ffmpeg "repeating" captured stream

[paziu]

ffmpeg is able to handle inputs such as device, or file, unfortunately is unable to capture a stream and process it in real-time...
after a day of messing with ffmpeg i thought about pipes (fifo)
mplayer is doing the stream capture job, and feeding a pipe instead of writing to a file,
on the other side of the pipe ffmeg is reading it as it would be a local file, transcoding and feeding ffserver, which is able broadcast the stream(s)...
this can be used to change the destination format of the stream / lower the bandwidth by changing the set of codecs used and/or bitrate, lower the downstream consumed by several simultaneous remote connections - one is enough.
( streaming AVI with ffserver is cool )

to do :

0> configure /etc/ffserver.conf for your result stream(s)
1> create a fifo
2> start ffserver
3> start mplayer and feed the pipe
4> start ffmpeg to transode the stream from the pipe and send it to ffserver

[cach0rr0]

Thanks for the write-up. I've moved it to the Documentation topic so that it doesn't get lost with the high volume of other posts in Multimedia.
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