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Raspberry Pi 4 for Media Server: Low-power replacement or Downgrade?

Looking to use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a low-power and small form factor replacement for an aging media server. Currently running an i5 4690, 16 GB of RAM, and a 2TB RAID 1 array. Used for movie/tv ...
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Fragmented MP4 freezes on ffplay after some time

I won't take much time from you... I am streaming a fragmented mp4 from ffmpeg with this command-line ffmpeg \ -f video4linux2 \ -video_size 640x480 \ -framerate 60 \ -i /dev/video0 \ -c:v ...
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Is the Raspberry Pi able to stream Full HD over wifi?

I'd like to use a Raspberry Pi as a media streaming device. The source will likely be a Plex Media Server installed on a PC. The PC will be connected to my run of the mill basic WiFI router. The Pi ...
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how to fetch the mpeg stream from local URL/ COM port using shell commands in unix based(raspberry) system?

I am looking for a suggestion through which I can try fetching some mpeg stream at very low frame rates from the local IP/COM port and transport it whole into other system with the help of an ...
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Raspberry Pi streaming video - stream is accessible locally, but port forwarding is not working

What I'm trying to do: Stream video from a Raspberry Pi connected to a mifi router, and access the stream from a different network using port forwarding. What I've done: I'm running motion on a ...
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Viewing H.264 bitstream in browser using ffmpeg to ffserver

This is a followup to https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/93254/stream-usb-webcam-with-audio?noredirect=1#comment150507_93254 I, like many other brave tinkerers before me, thought it ...
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Saved vlc stream skips

I've scheduled vlc to save ts streams using cron. cvlc https://somestream.ts --sout=file/ts:foo.mpg --run_time 4200 The resulting foo.mpg gets created and is playable. However, the resulting videos ...
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Reolink RTSP-->ffmpeg, RTP: PT=xx: bad cseq if stopped/restarted quickly

My BeeCam is a Raspberry Pi3/Raspbian Stretch w/freshly compiled ffmpeg version N-89882-g4dbae00bac running this as a service: #!/bin/bash cd /usr/local/bin/ while true do ./ffmpeg -re -...
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How do I use h264_omx on Raspberry Pi?

I'm using Raspberry Pi 1gen B+, for push stream to web through rtmp. But I find my CPU usage came up to 90%+. This is how I use it: ffmpeg -re -f concat -safe 0 -i playlist.txt -vcodec copy -acodec ...
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Alternatives to Video4Linux2 for grabbing from webcam (Using FFmpeg)

I'm getting (two alternating) errors following this guide for streaming from a Raspberry Pi. Are there any other grabbers besides V4L2 that I can use with ffmpeg? Or are there any other streaming ...
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Webcam stream doesn't work on Logitech E2500

I'm currently trying to get webcam streaming to work on a Logitech E2500 with ffmpeg. Running the command gives me some kind of buffer length error. pi@raspberrypi ~/ffmpeg-dmo-1.0 $ sudo /usr/sbin/...
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Reduce the disk space required while streaming

My plan is that I'm going to use a 8GB SD-card for my Raspberry PI. The PI itself will not store much more then the actual OS and its components, but will instead gather all required files from ...
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