Network source

Send and receive video signals from a network on the LAN or WAN.

1 Network as video source

Fetch or receive data? There are two different variants to choose from as a mode: Push or Pull. The respective setting influences the further menu navigation.

2 Pull or receive mode

Fig. 1: Set up video source in pull mode.

3 Protocol

You can select between > SRT > RTMP or > HLS.

4 Send the stream to this address:

Enter this address in the sending device from the video signal.

5. CHECK

Pressing the button verifies the reception of the video signal.

If the stream is not accepted, the error message can be displayed directly. By clicking on: "View details of the review".

2 Fetch in push mode

Fig. 2: Set up video source in push mode.

3 Network source address push

At this point, the address of the server can be customized. The address supports HTTP, HTTPS (HLS, DASH), RTP, RTSP, RTMP, and SRT.

4 Login credentials

If required, the access data of the video source can be entered here.

5 Advanced settings in push mode

HTTP and HTTPS

Read input at native speed

Force input frame rate

User-agent

General

Tread Queue Size

This option sets the maximum number of packets in the queue when read from the file or device. For low latency/high rate live streams, packages may be discarded if they are not read in time; setting this value may force FFmpeg to use a separate input thread and read packets as they arrive. The default value is 512.

> Flags

Default value is: genpts

1. discardcorrput -> Discard damaged frames

2. fastseek -> Enable fast but inaccurate searches for some formats.

3. genpts -> Generate the timestamp of the video

4. igndts -> Ignore decoding of the timestamp

5. ignidx -> Ignore index

6. nobuffer -> Reduce latency caused by optional buffering

7. nofillin -> Do not fill in missing values that can be calculated exactly

8. noparse -> Disable AVParsers, that needs filling too

9. sortdts -> Try to interleave the output packets by decoding the timestamp

6. CHECK

After starting the test process, the active video stream can be selected.

"Show probe details" shows the feedback from the system.

Encoding settings

Passthrough (copy) option takes the unedited video stream.

• Passthrough (copy) option takes the unedited video stream.

• H.264 (libx264) starts a video encoding with the free and open-source software library.

Afterwards, you can directly switch to the audio settings.

Learn more

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