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Reload ffserver.conf while streaming

I want to update dynamically ffserver.conf to add a new stream source to it.

Is there anyway to reload ffserver.conf in ffserver without stopping the streams running?

Solution

  • Reloading of "ffserver.conf" config file is not supported by ffserver. And it have no restart code as I see.

    There are the sources of ffserver: ffmpeg/ffserver.c line 4020:

    4020 static int parse_ffconfig(const char *filename)

    And the config parser is called only once - from main():

    4710 int main(int argc, char **argv)
4711 {
...
4735     if ((ret = parse_ffconfig(config_filename)) < 0) { ...

    There are no special signal handlers (like HUP in init) for restarting server or rereading configs (only SIGCHLD and SIGPIPE needed to use fork and to work with sockets).