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Jalle19 / node-ffmpeg-mpegts-proxy

Simple proxy for leveraging ffmpeg to convert any source URL into MPEG-TS over HTTP
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Option that enable or disable an stream in sources.json? #25

Closed beginho closed 8 years ago

beginho commented 8 years ago

Hi again,

thanks for solving avconv path per stream 👍

avconv path on a per-stream basis (closes #20)

As title says, I think this kind of switch will be really useful, since sometimes is needed to temporary disable certain stream.... So to avoid deleting one stream's section in sources when you want to temporary disable it and adding it back when you want to get stream back, there could be and "active": "yes|no" line or something similar defined in sources.

Regards, Beginho

Jalle19 commented 8 years ago

Why do you need to disable them?

beginho commented 8 years ago

-Lets say source of specific stream is bad for some reason, and you need time to fix/change it, ok? To avoid streaming of an "corrupted" stream, you can use an off/on switch at stream section and disable it until source is fixed/changed... -Or if source is temporary dead, i think you will agree that its not needed to start avconv at all, and using resources for nothing, cause node-ffmpeg-mpegts-proxy will try to start avconv like forever. When source is back, then you can simply enable stream... And many other situations are on my mind, but please, if you find this silly, please ignore my question and close the case, Im more then satisfied with current possibilities... thanks much!

Regards, Beginho

Jalle19 commented 8 years ago

Well, since you'd have to edit the configuration anyway to change the enabled flag, why not just remove the channel entry until it's been fixed.

Maybe it would be better to add some throttling so it doesn't try to spawn avconv processes as fast as possible?

beginho commented 8 years ago

Maybe it would be better to add some throttling so it doesn't try to spawn avconv processes as fast as possible?

Thats another way to go.. why not

Jalle19 commented 8 years ago

Closing this in favor of https://github.com/Jalle19/node-ffmpeg-mpegts-proxy/issues/27