OBS should be able to find out that the source streams stopped producing frames and restart the source reading
Current Behavior
RTSP stream may stop producing frames, but underlying FFMPEG probably keeps going. The result is the stream being stuck forever. I have to change some property to make OBS restart the source.
Steps to Reproduce
Find a RTSP stream
Add it as source media
Wait for the source media to stop producing frames, while not stopping FFMPEG at the same time (this can be tricky I guess and take forever, making reproduction impossible)
Anything else we should know?
In the OBS log there is no log from ffmpeg, so the event that occured it's basically invisible in the log. The stream died at around 03:06:59 am, in the log file there is nothing between 02:14:58 and 09:40:20. Can I enable more logging somehow?
Anyway.
I was working on a hobby project once that was recording streams using FFMPEG. I had a situation where the stream stopped producing frames, but FFMPEG kept running. As a result, nothing was recorded and this situation was ignored.
And if no such line in the ffmpeg log was produced for 5 seconds - I was considering the recording broken and I was restarting ffmpeg. I think OBS should do the same. The timeout can be configurable I guess, but usually no frames for 5 seconds means the stream is dead.
Operating System Info
Ubuntu 24.04
Other OS
KDE Neon 6.2, based on Ubuntu 24.04
OBS Studio Version
30.2.3
OBS Studio Version (Other)
No response
OBS Studio Log URL
https://obsproject.com/logs/rJKXLhOZLn5wgVuh
OBS Studio Crash Log URL
No response
Expected Behavior
OBS should be able to find out that the source streams stopped producing frames and restart the source reading
Current Behavior
RTSP stream may stop producing frames, but underlying FFMPEG probably keeps going. The result is the stream being stuck forever. I have to change some property to make OBS restart the source.
Steps to Reproduce
Anything else we should know?
In the OBS log there is no log from ffmpeg, so the event that occured it's basically invisible in the log. The stream died at around 03:06:59 am, in the log file there is nothing between 02:14:58 and 09:40:20. Can I enable more logging somehow?
Anyway.
I was working on a hobby project once that was recording streams using FFMPEG. I had a situation where the stream stopped producing frames, but FFMPEG kept running. As a result, nothing was recorded and this situation was ignored.
So I made a fix and I was observing
frame=
lines:And if no such line in the ffmpeg log was produced for 5 seconds - I was considering the recording broken and I was restarting ffmpeg. I think OBS should do the same. The timeout can be configurable I guess, but usually no frames for 5 seconds means the stream is dead.