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Infinite stream from a video file (in a loop)

Is there any way howto create an infinite h264 stream from a video file (eg. mp4, avi, ...). I'd like to use ffmpeg to transcode avi file to h264 but there's no loop option for output.

Solution

  • No you can't. There is no such command in ffmpeg to loop video. You can use -loop for image only. If you are interested you can use concat demuxer. Create a playlist file e.g. playlist.txt

    Inside playlist.txt add the video location

    file '/path/to/video/video.mp4'
file '/path/to/video/video.mp4'
file '/path/to/video/video.mp4'
file '/path/to/video/video.mp4'
file '/path/to/video/video.mp4'

    Run ffmpeg

    ffmpeg -f concat -i playlist.txt -c copy output.mp4

    See here