Check if a RTMP-Stream is running and start ffmpeg to transcode the stream

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I'm using ffmpeg to transcode a rtmp-stream and re-stream it with ffmpeg.

I have 2 problems:

  • how can I check if the remote rtmp-stream is running and then start ffmpeg
  • sometimes ffmpeg breaks up transcoding and it must be restarted automatically

Any ideas?

Best Answer

In the past I've used mplayer with dumpstream + a filesizecheck for mms. (let it run for a few seconds, kill it, check if the file is large enough) Maybe this will work for rtmp as well, but I don't know how reliable mplayer's support is.

Btw, title has the abbreviation wrong

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