Ffmpeg via subprocess api

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rajde...@gmail.com

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Nov 11, 2020, 4:42:23 AM11/11/20
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Hi,

I am using the following code to run  ffmpeg in tornado:

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cmd = ["/usr/bin/ffmpeg", "-threads", "2", "-f", "lavfi", "-i", "anullsrc=r16000:cl=stereo", "-re", "-i", "/dev/video0", "-c:a", "aac", "-strict", "experimental", "-b:a", "128k", "-ar", "44100", "-s", "640x480", "-vcodec", "libx264", "-x264-params", "keyint=120:scenecut=0", "-vb", "200k", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "-f", "flv", "rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/<key>"]
self.__streaming_process = Subprocess(cmd, stdout=Subprocess.STREAM)
self.__streaming_process.set_exit_callback(self.__ffmpeg_closed)
IOLoop.instance().add_timeout(time.time() + 10, self.do_fulfill_stop_streaming)

while True:
line = await self.__streaming_process.stdout.read_until(b"\n")
if not line:
self.logger.debug("nothing to show")
await asyncio.sleep(.2)
else:
print(line)
pass

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When i use a similar code for a different Linux process i get new values for the line inside the while loop but for FFmpeg, it just gits once and then does not go to the next line. But in the IDE i see the FFmpeg output tin red as if everything is normal. but the reality is i am not capturing stdout or stderr into my own variable at all. is this a blocking way of writing subprocess or something? Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Pierce Lopez

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Nov 11, 2020, 12:02:37 PM11/11/20
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It looks like you want to capture stderr along with stdout. I think it should be sufficient to add stderr=subprocess.STDOUT (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.STDOUT)

- Pierce



On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:42 AM rajde...@gmail.com <rajde...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using the following code to run  ffmpeg in tornado:

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self.__streaming_process = Subprocess(cmd, stdout=Subprocess.STREAM)
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Rajdeep Rath

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Nov 11, 2020, 5:44:29 PM11/11/20
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Yes, that helped a lot!! Thank you very much. In fact, i would like to add that with FFmpeg the following line does not work well in printing all the output :

line = await self.__streaming_process.stdout.read_until_regex(b"\n")

This is because after sensing the encoding parameters the delimiter changes to \r from \n just before the actual encoding starts. So you actually need to use this instead:

line = await self.__streaming_process.stdout.read_until_regex(b"\r\n|\r|\n")

Cheers!

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