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Krasic
Krasic

Reputation: 145

FFprobe Check Stream Link

I am trying to use FFprobe to test if a streaming link is active or not.

For example this is a working streaming link:

ffprobe -loglevel quiet -show_streams rtmp://Lrmh0w.cloud.influxis.com/yoy/_definst_/185

I do get output which mean link is active.

However, once I change link to something not work:

ffprobe -loglevel quiet -show_streams rtmp://Lrmh0w.cloud.influxis.com/yoy/_definst_/18555555555

The command keeps running in background with no result.

Is there a way to bypass this, or is there any ffprobe timeout parameter? I couldn't find it from the official website documentation.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 11595

Answers (3)

s6a6n6d6m6a6n
s6a6n6d6m6a6n

Reputation: 31

I will +1 on the answers above : Adding a timeout before the ffprobe works.

ffprobe -show_format -timeout 1000000 -loglevel quiet  "${ChannelList[$i+1]}"

Would every now and then get stuck on a bad http request resulting in a 503 error (when looking at logs after removing loglevel quiet). Channel list is where all the stream links are loaded.

timeout 5s ffprobe -show_format -timeout 1000000 -loglevel quiet  "${ChannelList[$i+1]}"

This worked like a charm - prevented ffprobe from getting stuck indefinitely on a bad url and freezing the entire process.

Upvotes: 0

Maks
Maks

Reputation: 61

I'm just using *nix timeout:

/usr/bin/timeout 5s /usr/bin/ffprobe $SOURCE

In my case, it was enough.

Upvotes: 6

avnr
avnr

Reputation: 666

Try adding -timeout n before the url, where n is the number of seconds. If it doesn't help then you should ask the question without -loglevel quiet, including all the version info and error messages.

Upvotes: 2

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