第一次用ffplay播放視訊的過程以及ffplay使用說明書
編譯好的ffmpeg資料夾下有ffplay和ffplay_g兩個可執行檔案,發現這兩個功能是一樣的,不知道到底什麼區別.
其他的可執行檔案,也是這個樣子的.
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直接輸入ffplay後
[email protected]:/home/zhangbin/Documents/ffmpeg# ffplay
FFplay version SVN-r26268, Copyright (c) 2003-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 8 2011 09:20:02 with gcc 4.4.3
編譯的配置資訊
configuration: --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-version3
用到的庫
libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.107. 0 / 52.107. 0
libavformat 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
libavfilter 1.72. 0 / 1.72. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
Simple media player
用法
usage: ffplay [options] input_file
An input file must be specified
Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffplay'
[email protected]:/home/zhangbin/Documents/ffmpeg#
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ffplay的幫助文件
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FFPLAY(1) FFPLAY(1)
NAME
ffplay - FFplay media player
SYNOPSIS
ffplay [options] input_file
DESCRIPTION
FFplay is a very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg
libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the
various FFmpeg APIs.
OPTIONS
All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept in input
a string representing a number, which may contain one of the
International System number postfixes, for example 'K', 'M', 'G'. If
'i' is appended after the postfix, powers of 2 are used instead of
powers of 10. The 'B' postfix multiplies the value for 8, and can be
appended after another postfix or used alone. This allows using for
example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as postfix.
Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the
corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing with
"no" the option name, for example using "-nofoo" in the commandline
will set to false the boolean option with name "foo".
-----------------------------------
Generic options 通用選項
These options are shared amongst the ff* tools. ff*工具都公用這些選項
-L Show license.
-h, -?, -help, --help
Show help.
-version
Show version.
-formats
Show available formats.
The fields preceding the format names have the following meanings:
D Decoding available
E Encoding available
-codecs
Show available codecs.
The fields preceding the codec names have the following meanings:
D Decoding available
E Encoding available
V/A/S
Video/audio/subtitle codec
S Codec supports slices
D Codec supports direct rendering
T Codec can handle input truncated at random locations instead of
only at frame boundaries
-bsfs
Show available bitstream filters.
-protocols
Show available protocols.
-filters
Show available libavfilter filters.
-pix_fmts
Show available pixel formats.
-loglevel loglevel
Set the logging level used by the library. loglevel is a number or
a string containing one of the following values:
quiet
panic
fatal
error
warning
info
verbose
debug
By default the program logs to stderr, if coloring is supported by
the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log
coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable
FFMPEG_FORCE_NOCOLOR or NO_COLOR, or can be forced setting the
environment variable FFMPEG_FORCE_COLOR. The use of the
environment variable NO_COLOR is deprecated and will be dropped in
a following FFmpeg version.
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Main options 主要選項
-x width
Force displayed width.
-y height
Force displayed height.
-s size
Set frame size (WxH or abbreviation), needed for videos which don't
contain a header with the frame size like raw YUV.
-an Disable audio.
-vn Disable video.
-ss pos
Seek to a given position in seconds.
-t duration
play <duration> seconds of audio/video
-bytes
Seek by bytes.
-nodisp
Disable graphical display.
-f fmt
Force format.
-window_title title
Set window title (default is the input filename).
-loop number
Loops movie playback <number> times. 0 means forever.
-vf filter_graph
filter_graph is a description of the filter graph to apply to the
input video. Use the option "-filters" to show all the available
filters (including also sources and sinks).
-------------------------------------------------
Advanced options 高階選項
-pix_fmt format
Set pixel format.
-stats
Show the stream duration, the codec parameters, the current
position in the stream and the audio/video synchronisation drift.
-debug
Print specific debug info.
-bug
Work around bugs.
-vismv
Visualize motion vectors.
-fast
Non-spec-compliant optimizations.
-genpts
Generate pts.
-rtp_tcp
Force RTP/TCP protocol usage instead of RTP/UDP. It is only
meaningful if you are streaming with the RTSP protocol.
-sync type
Set the master clock to audio ("type=audio"), video ("type=video")
or external ("type=ext"). Default is audio. The master clock is
used to control audio-video synchronization. Most media players use
audio as master clock, but in some cases (streaming or high quality
broadcast) it is necessary to change that. This option is mainly
used for debugging purposes.
-threads count
Set the thread count.
-ast audio_stream_number
Select the desired audio stream number, counting from 0. The number
refers to the list of all the input audio streams. If it is greater
than the number of audio streams minus one, then the last one is
selected, if it is negative the audio playback is disabled.
-vst video_stream_number
Select the desired video stream number, counting from 0. The number
refers to the list of all the input video streams. If it is greater
than the number of video streams minus one, then the last one is
selected, if it is negative the video playback is disabled.
-sst subtitle_stream_number
Select the desired subtitle stream number, counting from 0. The
number refers to the list of all the input subtitle streams. If it
is greater than the number of subtitle streams minus one, then the
last one is selected, if it is negative the subtitle rendering is
disabled.
-autoexit
Exit when video is done playing.
-exitonkeydown
Exit if any key is pressed.
-exitonmousedown
Exit if any mouse button is pressed.
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While playing 快捷鍵
q, ESC
Quit.
f Toggle full screen.
p, SPC
Pause.
a Cycle audio channel.
v Cycle video channel.
t Cycle subtitle channel.
w Show audio waves.
left/right
Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
down/up
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
mouse click
Seek to percentage in file corresponding to fraction of width.
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EXPRESSION EVALUATION 表示式
When evaluating an arithemetic expression, FFmpeg uses an internal
formula evaluator, implemented through the libavutil/eval.h interface.
An expression may contain unary, binary operators, constants, and
functions.
Two expressions expr1 and expr2 can be combined to form another
expression "expr1;expr2". expr1 and expr2 are evaluated in turn, and
the new expression evaluates to the value of expr2.
The following binary operators are available: "+", "-", "*", "/", "^".
The following unary operators are available: "+", "-".
The following functions are available:
sinh(x)
cosh(x)
tanh(x)
sin(x)
cos(x)
tan(x)
atan(x)
asin(x)
acos(x)
exp(x)
log(x)
abs(x)
squish(x)
gauss(x)
isnan(x)
Return 1.0 if x is NAN, 0.0 otherwise.
mod(x, y)
max(x, y)
min(x, y)
eq(x, y)
gte(x, y)
gt(x, y)
lte(x, y)
lt(x, y)
st(var, expr)
Allow to store the value of the expression expr in an internal
variable. var specifies the number of the variable where to store
the value, and it is a value ranging from 0 to 9. The function
returns the value stored in the internal variable.
ld(var)
Allow to load the value of the internal variable with number var,
which was previosly stored with st(var, expr). The function
returns the loaded value.
while(cond, expr)
Evaluate expression expr while the expression cond is non-zero, and
returns the value of the last expr evaluation, or NAN if cond was
always false.
Note that:
"*" works like AND
"+" works like OR
thus
if A then B else C
is equivalent to
A*B + not(A)*C
When A evaluates to either 1 or 0, that is the same as
A*B + eq(A,0)*C
In your C code, you can extend the list of unary and binary functions,
and define recognized constants, so that they are available for your
expressions.
The evaluator also recognizes the International System number
postfixes. If 'i' is appended after the postfix, powers of 2 are used
instead of powers of 10. The 'B' postfix multiplies the value for 8,
and can be appended after another postfix or used alone. This allows
using for example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as postfix.
Follows the list of available International System postfixes, with
indication of the corresponding powers of 10 and of 2.
y -24 / -80
z -21 / -70
a -18 / -60
f -15 / -50
p -12 / -40
n -9 / -30
u -6 / -20
m -3 / -10
c -2
d -1
h 2
k 3 / 10
K 3 / 10
M 6 / 20
G 9 / 30
T 12 / 40
P 15 / 40
E 18 / 50
Z 21 / 60
Y 24 / 70
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INPUT DEVICES 輸入裝置
Input devices are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow to access
the data coming from a multimedia device attached to your system.
When you configure your FFmpeg build, all the supported input devices
are enabled by default. You can list all available ones using the
configure option "--list-indevs".
You can disable all the input devices using the configure option
"--disable-indevs", and selectively enable an input device using the
option "--enable-indev=INDEV", or you can disable a particular input
device using the option "--disable-indev=INDEV".
The option "-formats" of the ff* tools will display the list of
supported input devices (amongst the demuxers).
A description of the currently available input devices follows.
alsa
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) input device.
To enable this input device during configuration you need libasound
installed on your system.
This device allows capturing from an ALSA device. The name of the
device to capture has to be an ALSA card identifier.
An ALSA identifier has the syntax:
hw:<CARD>[,<DEV>[,<SUBDEV>]]
where the DEV and SUBDEV components are optional.
The three arguments (in order: CARD,DEV,SUBDEV) specify card number or
identifier, device number and subdevice number (-1 means any).
To see the list of cards currently recognized by your system check the
files /proc/asound/cards and /proc/asound/devices.
For example to capture with ffmpeg from an ALSA device with card id 0,
you may run the command:
ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0 alsaout.wav
For more information see:
<http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm.html>
bktr
BSD video input device.
dv1394
Linux DV 1394 input device.
jack
JACK input device.
To enable this input device during configuration you need libjack
installed on your system.
A JACK input device creates one or more JACK writable clients, one for
each audio channel, with name client_name:input_N, where client_name is
the name provided by the application, and N is a number which
identifies the channel. Each writable client will send the acquired
data to the FFmpeg input device.
Once you have created one or more JACK readable clients, you need to
connect them to one or more JACK writable clients.
To connect or disconnect JACK clients you can use the jack_connect and
jack_disconnect programs, or do it through a graphical interface, for
example with qjackctl.
To list the JACK clients and their properties you can invoke the
command jack_lsp.
Follows an example which shows how to capture a JACK readable client
with ffmpeg.
# Create a JACK writable client with name "ffmpeg".
$ ffmpeg -f jack -i ffmpeg -y out.wav
# Start the sample jack_metro readable client.
$ jack_metro -b 120 -d 0.2 -f 4000
# List the current JACK clients.
$ jack_lsp -c
system:capture_1
system:capture_2
system:playback_1
system:playback_2
ffmpeg:input_1
metro:120_bpm
# Connect metro to the ffmpeg writable client.
$ jack_connect metro:120_bpm ffmpeg:input_1
For more information read: <http://jackaudio.org/>
libdc1394
IIDC1394 input device, based on libdc1394 and libraw1394.
oss
Open Sound System input device.
The filename to provide to the input device is the device node
representing the OSS input device, and is usually set to /dev/dsp.
For example to grab from /dev/dsp using ffmpeg use the command:
ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp /tmp/oss.wav
For more information about OSS see:
<http://manuals.opensound.com/usersguide/dsp.html>
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video4linux and video4linux2
Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 input video devices.
The name of the device to grab is a file device node, usually Linux
systems tend to automatically create such nodes when the device (e.g.
an USB webcam) is plugged into the system, and has a name of the kind
/dev/videoN, where N is a number associated to the device.
Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 devices only support a limited set of
widthxheight sizes and framerates. You can check which are supported
for example with the command dov4l for Video4Linux devices and the
command v4l-info for Video4Linux2 devices.
If the size for the device is set to 0x0, the input device will try to
autodetect the size to use. Only for the video4linux2 device, if the
frame rate is set to 0/0 the input device will use the frame rate value
already set in the driver.
Video4Linux support is deprecated since Linux 2.6.30, and will be
dropped in later versions.
Follow some usage examples of the video4linux devices with the ff*
tools.
# Grab and show the input of a video4linux device, frame rate is set
# to the default of 25/1.
ffplay -s 320x240 -f video4linux /dev/video0
# Grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size.
ffplay -f video4linux2 /dev/video0
# Grab and record the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size,
# frame rate value defaults to 0/0 so it is read from the video4linux2
# driver.
ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 out.mpeg
vfwcap
VfW (Video for Windows) capture input device.
The filename passed as input is the capture driver number, ranging from
0 to 9. You may use "list" as filename to print a list of drivers. Any
other filename will be interpreted as device number 0.
x11grab
X11 video input device.
This device allows to capture a region of an X11 display.
The filename passed as input has the syntax:
[<hostname>]:<display_number>.<screen_number>[+<x_offset>,<y_offset>]
hostname:display_number.screen_number specifies the X11 display name of
the screen to grab from. hostname can be ommitted, and defaults to
"localhost". The environment variable DISPLAY contains the default
display name.
x_offset and y_offset specify the offsets of the grabbed area with
respect to the top-left border of the X11 screen. They default to 0.
Check the X11 documentation (e.g. man X) for more detailed information.
Use the dpyinfo program for getting basic information about the
properties of your X11 display (e.g. grep for "name" or "dimensions").
For example to grab from :0.0 using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s cif -i :0.0 out.mpg
# Grab at position 10,20.
ffmpeg -f x11grab -25 -s cif -i :0.0+10,20 out.mpg
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OUTPUT DEVICES 輸出裝置
Output devices are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow to write
multimedia data to an output device attached to your system.
When you configure your FFmpeg build, all the supported output devices
are enabled by default. You can list all available ones using the
configure option "--list-outdevs".
You can disable all the output devices using the configure option
"--disable-outdevs", and selectively enable an output device using the
option "--enable-outdev=OUTDEV", or you can disable a particular input
device using the option "--disable-outdev=OUTDEV".
The option "-formats" of the ff* tools will display the list of enabled
output devices (amongst the muxers).
A description of the currently available output devices follows.
alsa
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) output device.
oss
OSS (Open Sound System) output device.
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PROTOCOLS 協議
Protocols are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow to access
resources which require the use of a particular protocol.
When you configure your FFmpeg build, all the supported protocols are
enabled by default. You can list all available ones using the configure
option "--list-protocols".
You can disable all the protocols using the configure option
"--disable-protocols", and selectively enable a protocol using the
option "--enable-protocol=PROTOCOL", or you can disable a particular
protocol using the option "--disable-protocol=PROTOCOL".
The option "-protocols" of the ff* tools will display the list of
supported protocols.
A description of the currently available protocols follows.
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concat
Physical concatenation protocol.
Allow to read and seek from many resource in sequence as if they were a
unique resource.
A URL accepted by this protocol has the syntax:
concat:<URL1>|<URL2>|...|<URLN>
where URL1, URL2, ..., URLN are the urls of the resource to be
concatenated, each one possibly specifying a distinct protocol.
For example to read a sequence of files split1.mpeg, split2.mpeg,
split3.mpeg with ffplay use the command:
ffplay concat:split1.mpeg/|split2.mpeg/|split3.mpeg
Note that you may need to escape the character "|" which is special for
many shells.
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file 檔案訪問協議
File access protocol.
Allow to read from or read to a file.
For example to read from a file input.mpeg with ffmpeg use the command:
ffmpeg -i file:input.mpeg output.mpeg
The ff* tools default to the file protocol, that is a resource
specified with the name "FILE.mpeg" is interpreted as the URL
"file:FILE.mpeg".
gopher
Gopher protocol.
http
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol).
mmst
MMS (Microsoft Media Server) protocol over TCP.
mmsh
MMS (Microsoft Media Server) protocol over HTTP.
The required syntax is:
mmsh://<server>[:<port>][/<app>][/<playpath>]
md5
MD5 output protocol.
Computes the MD5 hash of the data to be written, and on close writes
this to the designated output or stdout if none is specified. It can be
used to test muxers without writing an actual file.
Some examples follow.
# Write the MD5 hash of the encoded AVI file to the file output.avi.md5.
ffmpeg -i input.flv -f avi -y md5:output.avi.md5
# Write the MD5 hash of the encoded AVI file to stdout.
ffmpeg -i input.flv -f avi -y md5:
Note that some formats (typically MOV) require the output protocol to
be seekable, so they will fail with the MD5 output protocol.
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pipe unix的管道訪問協議
UNIX pipe access protocol.
Allow to read and write from UNIX pipes.
The accepted syntax is:
pipe:[<number>]
number is the number corresponding to the file descriptor of the pipe
(e.g. 0 for stdin, 1 for stdout, 2 for stderr). If number is not
specified, by default the stdout file descriptor will be used for
writing, stdin for reading.
For example to read from stdin with ffmpeg:
cat test.wav | ffmpeg -i pipe:0
# ...this is the same as...
cat test.wav | ffmpeg -i pipe:
For writing to stdout with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i test.wav -f avi pipe:1 | cat > test.avi
# ...this is the same as...
ffmpeg -i test.wav -f avi pipe: | cat > test.avi
Note that some formats (typically MOV), require the output protocol to
be seekable, so they will fail with the pipe output protocol.
rtmp
Real-Time Messaging Protocol.
The Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is used for streaming
multimeaXX dia content across a TCP/IP network.
The required syntax is:
rtmp://<server>[:<port>][/<app>][/<playpath>]
The accepted parameters are:
server
The address of the RTMP server.
port
The number of the TCP port to use (by default is 1935).
app It is the name of the application to access. It usually corresponds
to the path where the application is installed on the RTMP server
(e.g. /ondemand/, /flash/live/, etc.).
playpath
It is the path or name of the resource to play with reference to
the application specified in app, may be prefixed by "mp4:".
For example to read with ffplay a multimedia resource named "sample"
from the application "vod" from an RTMP server "myserver":
ffplay rtmp://myserver/vod/sample
rtmp, rtmpe, rtmps, rtmpt, rtmpte
Real-Time Messaging Protocol and its variants supported through
librtmp.
Requires the presence of the librtmp headers and library during
configuration. You need to explicitely configure the build with
"--enable-librtmp". If enabled this will replace the native RTMP
protocol.
This protocol provides most client functions and a few server functions
needed to support RTMP, RTMP tunneled in HTTP (RTMPT), encrypted RTMP
(RTMPE), RTMP over SSL/TLS (RTMPS) and tunneled variants of these
encrypted types (RTMPTE, RTMPTS).
The required syntax is:
<rtmp_proto>://<server>[:<port>][/<app>][/<playpath>] <options>
where rtmp_proto is one of the strings "rtmp", "rtmpt", "rtmpe",
"rtmps", "rtmpte", "rtmpts" corresponding to each RTMP variant, and
server, port, app and playpath have the same meaning as specified for
the RTMP native protocol. options contains a list of space-separated
options of the form key=val.
See the librtmp manual page (man 3 librtmp) for more information.
For example, to stream a file in real-time to an RTMP server using
ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -re -i myfile -f flv rtmp://myserver/live/mystream
To play the same stream using ffplay:
ffplay "rtmp://myserver/live/mystream live=1"
rtp
Real-Time Protocol.
rtsp
RTSP is not technically a protocol handler in libavformat, it is a
demuxer and muxer. The demuxer supports both normal RTSP (with data
transferred over RTP; this is used by e.g. Apple and Microsoft) and
Real-RTSP (with data transferred over RDT).
The muxer can be used to send a stream using RTSP ANNOUNCE to a server
supporting it (currently Darwin Streaming Server and Mischa
Spiegelmock's RTSP server, <http://github.com/revmischa/rtsp-server>).
The required syntax for a RTSP url is:
rtsp://<hostname>[:<port>]/<path>[?<options>]
options is a "&"-separated list. The following options are supported:
udp Use UDP as lower transport protocol.
tcp Use TCP (interleaving within the RTSP control channel) as lower
transport protocol.
multicast
Use UDP multicast as lower transport protocol.
http
Use HTTP tunneling as lower transport protocol, which is useful for
passing proxies.
filter_src
Accept packets only from negotiated peer address and port.
Multiple lower transport protocols may be specified, in that case they
are tried one at a time (if the setup of one fails, the next one is
tried). For the muxer, only the "tcp" and "udp" options are supported.
When receiving data over UDP, the demuxer tries to reorder received
packets (since they may arrive out of order, or packets may get lost
totally). In order for this to be enabled, a maximum delay must be
specified in the "max_delay" field of AVFormatContext.
When watching multi-bitrate Real-RTSP streams with ffplay, the streams
to display can be chosen with "-vst" n and "-ast" n for video and audio
respectively, and can be switched on the fly by pressing "v" and "a".
Example command lines:
To watch a stream over UDP, with a max reordering delay of 0.5 seconds:
ffplay -max_delay 500000 rtsp://server/video.mp4?udp
To watch a stream tunneled over HTTP:
ffplay rtsp://server/video.mp4?http
To send a stream in realtime to a RTSP server, for others to watch:
ffmpeg -re -i <input> -f rtsp -muxdelay 0.1 rtsp://server/live.sdp
sap
Session Announcement Protocol (RFC 2974). This is not technically a
protocol handler in libavformat, it is a muxer and demuxer. It is used
for signalling of RTP streams, by announcing the SDP for the streams
regularly on a separate port.
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Muxer
The syntax for a SAP url given to the muxer is:
sap://<destination>[:<port>][?<options>]
The RTP packets are sent to destination on port port, or to port 5004
if no port is specified. options is a "&"-separated list. The
following options are supported:
announce_addr=address
Specify the destination IP address for sending the announcements
to. If omitted, the announcements are sent to the commonly used
SAP announcement multicast address 224.2.127.254 (sap.mcast.net),
or ff0e::2:7ffe if destination is an IPv6 address.
announce_port=port
Specify the port to send the announcements on, defaults to 9875 if
not specified.
ttl=ttl
Specify the time to live value for the announcements and RTP
packets, defaults to 255.
same_port=0|1
If set to 1, send all RTP streams on the same port pair. If zero
(the default), all streams are sent on unique ports, with each
stream on a port 2 numbers higher than the previous. VLC/Live555
requires this to be set to 1, to be able to receive the stream.
The RTP stack in libavformat for receiving requires all streams to
be sent on unique ports.
Example command lines follow.
To broadcast a stream on the local subnet, for watching in VLC:
ffmpeg -re -i <input> -f sap sap://224.0.0.255?same_port=1
Similarly, for watching in ffplay:
ffmpeg -re -i <input> -f sap sap://224.0.0.255
And for watching in ffplay, over IPv6:
ffmpeg -re -i <input> -f sap sap://[ff0e::1:2:3:4]
Demuxer
The syntax for a SAP url given to the demuxer is:
sap://[<address>][:<port>]
address is the multicast address to listen for announcements on, if
omitted, the default 224.2.127.254 (sap.mcast.net) is used. port is the
port that is listened on, 9875 if omitted.
The demuxers listens for announcements on the given address and port.
Once an announcement is received, it tries to receive that particular
stream.
Example command lines follow.
To play back the first stream announced on the normal SAP multicast
address:
ffplay sap://
To play back the first stream announced on one the default IPv6 SAP
multicast address:
ffplay sap://[ff0e::2:7ffe]
tcp
Trasmission Control Protocol.
udp
User Datagram Protocol.
The required syntax for a UDP url is:
udp://<hostname>:<port>[?<options>]
options contains a list of &-seperated options of the form key=val.
Follow the list of supported options.
buffer_size=size
set the UDP buffer size in bytes
localport=port
override the local UDP port to bind with
pkt_size=size
set the size in bytes of UDP packets
reuse=1|0
explicitly allow or disallow reusing UDP sockets
ttl=ttl
set the time to live value (for multicast only)
connect=1|0
Initialize the UDP socket with "connect()". In this case, the
destination address can't be changed with udp_set_remote_url later.
If the destination address isn't known at the start, this option
can be specified in udp_set_remote_url, too. This allows finding
out the source address for the packets with getsockname, and makes
writes return with AVERROR(ECONNREFUSED) if "destination
unreachable" is received. For receiving, this gives the benefit of
only receiving packets from the specified peer address/port.
Some usage examples of the udp protocol with ffmpeg follow.
To stream over UDP to a remote endpoint:
ffmpeg -i <input> -f <format> udp://<hostname>:<port>
To stream in mpegts format over UDP using 188 sized UDP packets, using
a large input buffer:
ffmpeg -i <input> -f mpegts udp://<hostname>:<port>?pkt_size=188&buffer_size=65535
To receive over UDP from a remote endpoint:
ffmpeg -i udp://[<multicast-address>]:<port>
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FILTERGRAPH DESCRIPTION
A filtergraph is a directed graph of connected filters. It can contain
cycles, and there can be multiple links between a pair of filters. Each
link has one input pad on one side connecting it to one filter from
which it takes its input, and one output pad on the other side
connecting it to the one filter accepting its output.
Each filter in a filtergraph is an instance of a filter class
registered in the application, which defines the features and the
number of input and output pads of the filter.
A filter with no input pads is called a "source", a filter with no
output pads is called a "sink".
Filtergraph syntax
A filtergraph can be represented using a textual representation, which
is recognized by the "-vf" and "-af" options of the ff* tools, and by
the "av_parse_graph()" function defined in libavfilter/avfiltergraph.
A filterchain consists of a sequence of connected filters, each one
connected to the previous one in the sequence. A filterchain is
represented by a list of ","-separated filter descriptions.
A filtergraph consists of a sequence of filterchains. A sequence of
filterchains is represented by a list of ";"-separated filterchain
descriptions.
A filter is represented by a string of the form:
[in_link_1]...[in_link_N]filter_name=arguments[out_link_1]...[out_link_M]
filter_name is the name of the filter class of which the described
filter is an instance of, and has to be the name of one of the filter
classes registered in the program. The name of the filter class is
optionally followed by a string "=arguments".
arguments is a string which contains the parameters used to initialize
the filter instance, and are described in the filter descriptions
below.
The list of arguments can be quoted using the character "'" as initial
and ending mark, and the character '/' for escaping the characters
within the quoted text; otherwise the argument string is considered
terminated when the next special character (belonging to the set
"[]=;,") is encountered.
The name and arguments of the filter are optionally preceded and
followed by a list of link labels. A link label allows to name a link
and associate it to a filter output or input pad. The preceding labels
in_link_1 ... in_link_N, are associated to the filter input pads, the
following labels out_link_1 ... out_link_M, are associated to the
output pads.
When two link labels with the same name are found in the filtergraph, a
link between the corresponding input and output pad is created.
If an output pad is not labelled, it is linked by default to the first
unlabelled input pad of the next filter in the filterchain. For
example in the filterchain:
nullsrc, split[L1], [L2]overlay, nullsink
the split filter instance has two output pads, and the overlay filter
instance two input pads. The first output pad of split is labelled
"L1", the first input pad of overlay is labelled "L2", and the second
output pad of split is linked to the second input pad of overlay, which
are both unlabelled.
In a complete filterchain all the unlabelled filter input and output
pads must be connected. A filtergraph is considered valid if all the
filter input and output pads of all the filterchains are connected.
Follows a BNF description for the filtergraph syntax:
<NAME> ::= sequence of alphanumeric characters and '_'
<LINKLABEL> ::= "[" <NAME> "]"
<LINKLABELS> ::= <LINKLABEL> [<LINKLABELS>]
<FILTER_ARGUMENTS> ::= sequence of chars (eventually quoted)
<FILTER> ::= [<LINKNAMES>] <NAME> ["=" <ARGUMENTS>] [<LINKNAMES>]
<FILTERCHAIN> ::= <FILTER> [,<FILTERCHAIN>]
<FILTERGRAPH> ::= <FILTERCHAIN> [;<FILTERGRAPH>]
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AUDIO FILTERS
When you configure your FFmpeg build, you can disable any of the
existing filters using --disable-filters. The configure output will
show the audio filters included in your build.
Below is a description of the currently available audio filters.
anull
Pass the audio source unchanged to the output.
AUDIO SOURCES
Below is a description of the currently available audio sources.
anullsrc
Null audio source, never return audio frames. It is mainly useful as a
template and to be employed in analysis / debugging tools.
It accepts as optional parameter a string of the form
sample_rate:channel_layout.
sample_rate specify the sample rate, and defaults to 44100.
channel_layout specify the channel layout, and can be either an integer
or a string representing a channel layout. The default value of
channel_layout is 3, which corresponds to CH_LAYOUT_STEREO.
Check the channel_layout_map definition in libavcodec/audioconvert.c
for the mapping between strings and channel layout values.
Follow some examples:
# set the sample rate to 48000 Hz and the channel layout to CH_LAYOUT_MONO.
anullsrc=48000:4
# same as
anullsrc=48000:mono
AUDIO SINKS
Below is a description of the currently available audio sinks.
anullsink
Null audio sink, do absolutely nothing with the input audio. It is
mainly useful as a template and to be employed in analysis / debugging
tools.
VIDEO FILTERS
When you configure your FFmpeg build, you can disable any of the
existing filters using --disable-filters. The configure output will
show the video filters included in your build.
Below is a description of the currently available video filters.
blackframe
Detect frames that are (almost) completely black. Can be useful to
detect chapter transitions or commercials. Output lines consist of the
frame number of the detected frame, the percentage of blackness, the
position in the file if known or -1 and the timestamp in seconds.
In order to display the output lines, you need to set the loglevel at
least to the AV_LOG_INFO value.
The filter accepts the syntax:
blackframe[=<amount>:[<threshold>]]
amount is the percentage of the pixels that have to be below the
threshold, and defaults to 98.
threshold is the threshold below which a pixel value is considered
black, and defaults to 32.
copy
Copy the input source unchanged to the output. Mainly useful for
testing purposes.
crop
Crop the input video to out_w:out_h:x:y.
The parameters are expressions containing the following constants:
E, PI, PHI
the corresponding mathematical approximated values for e (euler
number), pi (greek PI), PHI (golden ratio)
x, y
the computed values for x and y. They are evaluated for each new
frame.
in_w, in_h
the input width and heigth
iw, ih
same as in_w and in_h
out_w, out_h
the output (cropped) width and heigth
ow, oh
same as out_w and out_h
n the number of input frame, starting from 0
pos the position in the file of the input frame, NAN if unknown
t timestamp expressed in seconds, NAN if the input timestamp is
unknown
The out_w and out_h parameters specify the expressions for the width
and height of the output (cropped) video. They are evaluated just at
the configuration of the filter.
The default value of out_w is "in_w", and the default value of out_h is
"in_h".
The expression for out_w may depend on the value of out_h, and the
expression for out_h may depend on out_w, but they cannot depend on x
and y, as x and y are evaluated after out_w and out_h.
The x and y parameters specify the expressions for the position of the
top-left corner of the output (non-cropped) area. They are evaluated
for each frame. If the evaluated value is not valid, it is approximated
to the nearest valid value.
The default value of x is "(in_w-out_w)/2", and the default value for y
is "(in_h-out_h)/2", which set the cropped area at the center of the
input image.
The expression for x may depend on y, and the expression for y may
depend on x.
Follow some examples:
# crop the central input area with size 100x100
crop=100:100
# crop the central input area with size 2/3 of the input video
"crop=2/3*in_w:2/3*in_h"
# crop the input video central square
crop=in_h
# delimit the rectangle with the top-left corner placed at position
# 100:100 and the right-bottom corner corresponding to the right-bottom
# corner of the input image.
crop=in_w-100:in_h-100:100:100
# crop 10 pixels from the lefth and right borders, and 20 pixels from
# the top and bottom borders
"crop=in_w-2*10:in_h-2*20"
# keep only the bottom right quarter of the input image
"crop=in_w/2:in_h/2:in_w/2:in_h/2"
# crop height for getting Greek harmony
"crop=in_w:1/PHI*in_w"
# trembling effect
"crop=in_w/2:in_h/2:(in_w-out_w)/2+((in_w-out_w)/2)*sin(n/10):(in_h-out_h)/2 +((in_h-out_h)/2)*sin(n/7)"
# erratic camera effect depending on timestamp and position
"crop=in_w/2:in_h/2:(in_w-out_w)/2+((in_w-out_w)/2)*sin(t*10):(in_h-out_h)/2 +((in_h-out_h)/2)*sin(t*13)"
# set x depending on the value of y
"crop=in_w/2:in_h/2:y:10+10*sin(n/10)"
cropdetect
Auto-detect crop size.
Calculate necessary cropping parameters and prints the recommended
parameters through the logging system. The detected dimensions
correspond to the non-black area of the input video.
It accepts the syntax:
cropdetect[=<limit>[:<round>[:<reset>]]]
limit
Threshold, which can be optionally specified from nothing (0) to
everything (255), defaults to 24.
round
Value which the width/height should be divisible by, defaults to
16. The offset is automatically adjusted to center the video. Use 2
to get only even dimensions (needed for 4:2:2 video). 16 is best
when encoding to most video codecs.
reset
Counter that determines after how many frames cropdetect will reset
the previously detected largest video area and start over to detect
the current optimal crop area. Defaults to 0.
This can be useful when channel logos distort the video area. 0
indicates never reset and return the largest area encountered
during playback.
drawbox
Draw a colored box on the input image.
It accepts the syntax:
drawbox=<x>:<y>:<width>:<height>:<color>
x, y
Specify the top left corner coordinates of the box. Default to 0.
width, height
Specify the width and height of the box, if 0 they are interpreted
as the input width and height. Default to 0.
color
Specify the color of the box to write, it can be the name of a
color (case insensitive match) or a 0xRRGGBB[AA] sequence.
Follow some examples:
# draw a black box around the edge of the input image
drawbox
# draw a box with color red and an opacity of 50%
drawbox=10:20:200:60:[email protected]"
fifo
Buffer input images and send them when they are requested.
This filter is mainly useful when auto-inserted by the libavfilter
framework.
The filter does not take parameters.
format
Convert the input video to one of the specified pixel formats.
Libavfilter will try to pick one that is supported for the input to the
next filter.
The filter accepts a list of pixel format names, separated by ":", for
example "yuv420p:monow:rgb24".
Some examples follow:
# convert the input video to the format "yuv420p"
format=yuv420p
# convert the input video to any of the formats in the list
format=yuv420p:yuv444p:yuv410p
frei0r
Apply a frei0r effect to the input video.
To enable compilation of this filter you need to install the frei0r
header and configure FFmpeg with --enable-frei0r.
The filter supports the syntax:
<filter_name>[{:|=}<param1>:<param2>:...:<paramN>]
filter_name is the name to the frei0r effect to load. If the
environment variable FREI0R_PATH is defined, the frei0r effect is
searched in each one of the directories specified by the colon
separated list in FREIOR_PATH, otherwise in the standard frei0r paths,
which are in this order: HOME/.frei0r-1/lib/, /usr/local/lib/frei0r-1/,
/usr/lib/frei0r-1/.
param1, param2, ... , paramN specify the parameters for the frei0r
effect.
A frei0r effect parameter can be a boolean (whose values are specified
with "y" and "n"), a double, a color (specified by the syntax R/G/B, R,
G, and B being float numbers from 0.0 to 1.0) or by an
"av_parse_color()" color description), a position (specified by the
syntax X/Y, X and Y being float numbers) and a string.
The number and kind of parameters depend on the loaded effect. If an
effect parameter is not specified the default value is set.
Some examples follow:
# apply the distort0r effect, set the first two double parameters
frei0r=distort0r:0.5:0.01
# apply the colordistance effect, takes a color as first parameter
frei0r=colordistance:0.2/0.3/0.4
frei0r=colordistance:violet
frei0r=colordistance:0x112233
# apply the perspective effect, specify the top left and top right
# image positions
frei0r=perspective:0.2/0.2:0.8/0.2
For more information see: <http://piksel.org/frei0r>
gradfun
Fix the banding artifacts that are sometimes introduced into nearly
flat regions by truncation to 8bit colordepth. Interpolate the
gradients that should go where the bands are, and dither them.
The filter takes two optional parameters, separated by ':':
strength:radius
strength is the maximum amount by which the filter will change any one
pixel. Also the threshold for detecting nearly flat regions. Acceptable
values range from .51 to 255, default value is 1.2, out-of-range values
will be clipped to the valid range.
radius is the neighborhood to fit the gradient to. A larger radius
makes for smoother gradients, but also prevents the filter from
modifying the pixels near detailed regions. Acceptable values are 8-32,
default value is 16, out-of-range values will be clipped to the valid
range.
# default parameters
gradfun=1.2:16
# omitting radius
gradfun=1.2
hflip
Flip the input video horizontally.
For example to horizontally flip the video in input with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i in.avi -vf "hflip" out.avi
hqdn3d
High precision/quality 3d denoise filter. This filter aims to reduce
image noise producing smooth images and making still images really
still. It should enhance compressibility.
It accepts the following optional parameters:
luma_spatial:chroma_spatial:luma_tmp:chroma_tmp
luma_spatial
a non-negative float number which specifies spatial luma strength,
defaults to 4.0
chroma_spatial
a non-negative float number which specifies spatial chroma
strength, defaults to 3.0*luma_spatial/4.0
luma_tmp
a float number which specifies luma temporal strength, defaults to
6.0*luma_spatial/4.0
chroma_tmp
a float number which specifies chroma temporal strength, defaults
to luma_tmp*chroma_spatial/luma_spatial