I noticed that the recording jobs sometimes got interrrupted, since the streams were not completely reliable. If ffmpeg does not get any data delivered it gives up after some time and I do not see any parameter to configure that timeout. (Please let me know if you know about it…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I came up with a fairly crude and simple, but working, let’s call it pragmatic solution, which is generic enough to share in a post like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The script that registers the recording at jobs does:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the recordIptvRobust.sh bash (5.0 and later since it uses the convenient epochseconds variable) script does:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I noticed that the recording jobs sometimes got interrrupted, since the streams were not completely reliable. If ffmpeg does not get any data delivered it gives up after some time and I do not see any parameter to configure that … Continue reading ...
at -m ${FORMATTED_STARTTIME} <<!
bash \/home\/xxx\/scripts\/recordIptvRobust.sh ${SEC_LENGTH} ${CHANNEL_NO} ${START_TIME}
!
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START_EPOCH=$EPOCHSECONDS
STOP_EPOCH=$(( \"${START_EPOCH} + ${SEC_LENGTH}\" ))
while ((\"${EPOCHSECONDS} < ${STOP_EPOCH}\")); do
\/usr\/bin\/ffmpeg -i \"http:\/\/stream-url-here\/${CHANNEL_NO}\" -y -err_detect ignore_err -c:v copy -c:a copy -t $SEC_LENGTH \/home\/xxx\/public_html\/record\/record_${STARTTIME\/\/:}${CHANNEL_NO}${EPOCHSECONDS}.mkv
# Give the stream some time to restore order
sleep 10
done
# Merge segments with mkvmerge
\/usr\/bin\/mkvmerge -o \/home\/xxx\/public_html\/record\/record_${STARTTIME\/\/:}${CHANNEL_NO}.mkv $(ls -1 \/home\/xxx\/public_html\/record\/record${STARTTIME\/\/:}${CHANNEL_NO}.mkv | paste -sd\" \" | sed 's\/ \/ + \/g')
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