One liner to create HLS stream

IIUC with HLS or DASH, I can create a manifest and serve the segments straight from my httpd, e.g. python -m http.server.

I have a UVC video feed coming in on /dev/video1 and I'm battling to create a simple m3u8 in either gstreamer or ffmpeg.

I got as far as:

gst-launch-1.0 -e v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! videoconvert ! x264enc ! mpegtsmux ! hlssink max-files=5

Any ideas?

Solution

To list video1 device capabilities:

ffmpeg -f v4l2 -list_formats all -i /dev/video1

To list ALSA devices:

arecord -L

Use two inputs:

 ffmpeg -f alsa -i <alsa_device> -f v4l2 -i /dev/video1 [...] /path/to/docroot/playlist.m3u8

You can find the various HLS parameters in the FFmpeg documentation.