From: Stefano Sabatini Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:48:56 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add an "How does it work" section in ffserver-doc.texi. X-Git-Tag: v0.5~4110 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f26a60a0f0d04436d8c39e13930bb2a74dc0d3c2;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Flibav.git Add an "How does it work" section in ffserver-doc.texi. Originally committed as revision 13808 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- diff --git a/doc/ffserver-doc.texi b/doc/ffserver-doc.texi index e93d70f..4df422d 100644 --- a/doc/ffserver-doc.texi +++ b/doc/ffserver-doc.texi @@ -26,6 +26,24 @@ information. [Contributed by Philip Gladstone, philip-ffserver at gladstonefamily dot net] +@section How does it work? + +FFserver receives prerecorded files or FFM streams from some ffmpeg +instance as input, then streams them over RTP/RTSP/HTTP. + +An ffserver instance will listen on some port as specified in the +configuration file. You can launch one or more instances of ffmpeg and +send one or more FFM streams to the port where ffserver is expecting +to receive them. Alternately, you can make ffserver launch such ffmpeg +instances at startup. + +Input streams are called feeds, and each one is specified by a +section in the configuration file. + +For each feed you can have different output streams in various +formats, each one specified by a section in the configuration +file. + @section What can this do? When properly configured and running, you can capture video and audio in real