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ffmpeg monitor and restart stream when it hung or stall
You are using ffmpeg to stream to youtube but after a while, it hung or stuck. You want to restart the streaming command when this happens.
First run the
ffmpeg command on a terminal in a while loop (this example is for fish terminal)while true
ffmpeg -re -i https://roundrobin3.videostreamingwowza.com/visdeurbel2/visdeurbel2.stream/playlist.m3u8 -c:v copy -c:a aac -ar 44100 -ab 128k -ac 2 -strict -2 -flags +global_header -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -bufsize 3000k -f flv "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/abcd-efgh-ijkl" > youtube.log
sleep 5
end
This will run the stream and output it to a
log.txtrun this script on separate terminal to monitor and restart ffmpeg process
#!/bin/sh
#sleep 10
while true
do
frameA=$(grep "videostreamingwowza" youtube.log | tail -n1 | sed -n 's/.*\(roundrobin3.videostreamingwowza.com.*\.ts.*\)/\1/p')
echo "A: $frameA"
sleep 30
frameB=$(grep "videostreamingwowza" youtube.log | tail -n1 | sed -n 's/.*\(roundrobin3.videostreamingwowza.com.*\.ts.*\)/\1/p')
echo "B: $frameB"
if [ "$frameA" = "$frameB" ]
then
echo "Stream has hung"
printf "%s - Stream has hung\n" "$(date)" >> stream.log
pkill ffmpeg
echo "killed ffmpeg..."
fi
sleep 2
done
Basically it take some line from the log, and do it again after 30 seconds.
If the line stays the same, it assume that the stream stuck and kill the
ffmpeg process