July 9, 2016

Quick & Easy: Streaming WebM with FFMPEG & IceCast2

Quick & Easy: Streaming WebM with FFMPEG & IceCast2

Its way simpler than i thought and even works in chrome, firefox, opera, mpv, mpc-be and vlc, the only ones out are edge/ie and safari still no webm?!

icecast2

ffmpeg

ffmpeg WebM (VP8/Opus) still some funky things with vp9 :/

check the stream

should probably look something like this
Metadata: title : Big Buck Bunny, Sunflower version encoder : Lavf57.25.100 icy-pub : 0 icy-metadata : 1 Duration: N/A, start: 247.914000, bitrate: N/A Stream #0:0: Video: vp8, yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc (default) Stream #0:1: Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)

test stream (captured from live with wget)

Your browser is bad for the internet, Get Opera, Firefox or Chrome! (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / [www.bigbuckbunny.org](www.bigbuckbunny.org)

more info can be found at xiph

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