Input Video URL (FFmpeg)

@ffmpeg1 VersionInput

Opens a network video source through FFmpeg and emits a VideoFrame stream, applying scheme-aware defaults for RTSP, RTMP, HTTP, and HLS and auto-reconnecting after a silence. Use it for FFmpeg-only network decode.

How it fits

Typical backends

RTSP surveillance — detect, track, and stream the annotated feed to a browser.

Live segmentation reported as JSON from a network stream.

Caveats

CompatibilityCredentials for the url must be embedded in the URL or supplied through options; leading and trailing whitespace is stripped from the URL on ingestion.
Parameter interactionScheme-aware defaults are applied automatically — TCP transport and a user agent for RTSP, live buffering for RTMP, and relaxed TLS verification for the secure variants — and any of them can be overridden by setting the same key in options.
Parameter interactiontimeout_ms is the no-frames window before a reconnect, with zero disabling it, and retry_delay_ms is the wait between reconnect attempts; drop_frames discards frames under back-pressure rather than blocking the producer.
Parameter interactionwidth and height left at the sentinel keep the source resolution; setting either rescales without preserving aspect ratio on its own.
I/O contractFrames are emitted in BGR colour order with a host timestamp taken at emission time.
State lifetimeEvery knob is hot-swappable, and changing url or options tears down the current decoder and re-opens the source.

Versionen

e004b7b4latestdefault
Automated release
25.6.2026