Hardware H.264 video encoders for production use?

I’m involved in a project that will involve encoding H.264 video from several sources for live, real-time transmission over the ‘net, and it’d be nice to avoid having to dedicate an entire CPU-heavy server for every 1 or 2 sources. Some searching for hardware H.264 encoders turned up cheap USB gadgets with their own custom … Read more

video streaming infrastructure advice

We would like to set-up a live video-chat web site and are looking for basic recomendations for software and hardware set-up. Here are the particulars on the site: Most streams will be broadcast live from a single person with a web cam, etc., and viewed by typically 1-10 people, although there could be up to … Read more

H.264 not streaming over dynamic DNS [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 2 years ago. Improve this question I’m trying to view a network camera remotely so I registered with a dynamic DNS service. I can access the camera fine on … Read more

ffmpeg libx264 is noisy

After converting video with ffmpeg to H264, my video is noisy. ffmpeg -i http://192.168.1.10:5530/bysid/106 -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:v libx264 -c:a mp2 out.mkv Normal: Noisy subtitle: Same result with tag preset ultrafast, slow. Same result with GPU transcode. Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : mohsen nayyeri , Answer Author : Community

Problems capturing desktop video encoded by h264 with ffmpeg

I cannot get ffmpeg to capture a video of X11 desktop, encoded by h264. I can capture the desktop without specifying an encoder, with ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s wuxga -r 5 -i :1 output.avi -loglevel repeat+level+debug: [info] ffmpeg started on 2019-09-16 at 10:59:13 Report written to “ffmpeg-20190916-105913.log” Command line: ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -s … Read more