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Salvo Passaro
Salvo Passaro

Reputation: 13

iOS compatible live mp4 stream

I have a video source which gives me a raw h264 stream. I need to re-stream this live input in a way it is cross-compatible and playable without any plugin. I've tried using ffmpeg+ffserver to produce a fragmented mp4, but unfortunately my iPhone isn't playing it.

Is there a way to make it (raw h264 in mp4 container) playable in iOS's Safari, or maybe another cross-platform container?

Ps: i'm using a raspberry pi 3 to host ffmpeg processes, so i'm avoiding re encoding tasks; instead i'm just trying to fit my raw h264 in a "ios-compatible" container and make it accessible through a media server.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1878

Answers (1)

aergistal
aergistal

Reputation: 31209

For live streams you must use HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) with either the traditional MPEG-TS or fMP4 for newer iOS versions (see Apple HLS examples).

With FFmpeg you can use the hls muxer. The hls_segment_type option is used to choose between mpegts and fmp4.

Upvotes: 2

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