Pushing data to web-browser while processing input from ffmpeg

Question

I want to push output of this directly to the user using PHP/Python:

wget -qO- \"http://my-video-stream-input.url/here\" | ffmpeg -i pipe:0 -ab 192000 -acode         


        

Answer 1

You need to tell ffmpeg to output data to stdout, rather than giving it a file name. For example, the following command reads an input in FLAC format from stdin and writes an output in MP3 format to stdout (the file name "-" is used to mean stdin/stdout):

ffmpeg -f flac -i - -f mp3 -