I want to live stream with HTTP Live Streaming, but I have problem with libx264 or maybe something other.
My hardware and software environment:
Nginx and FFmpeg (in Ubuntu)I am able to stream a static video file (in Ubuntu with Nginx and FFmpeg).
The FFmpeg command is as following:
$ffmpeg -i /my/sample/video.mp4 -codec:v libx264 -f hls /output/file.m3u8
But when it comes to webcam (live streaming), Mac OS Safari fails to open the stream. I used the following command:
$ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -codec:v libx264 -f hls /output/file.m3u8
I guess it's the problem of libx264 because when I use mpeg2video encoder, Mac OS Safari indeed can play the stream:
$ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -codec:v mpeg2video -f hls /output/file.m3u8
I know there is a library called video4linux2, should I use video4linux2 for capturing my webcam? But I don't know the appropriate FFmpeg command for HTTP Live Streaming (I tried FFserver but there is error something like cannot rename hls)
anyone shed some light on my problem?
I have figured it out!
The reason why Mac OS Safari cannot open a HTTP Live Streaming encoded by libx264 is because the default codec in Mac OS does not support the default output by libx264!
Simply add -pix_fmt yuv420p to the FFmpeg command and everything works fine:
$ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /your/webcam/path -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p /output/file.m3u8