Travis Newman

Tag: ffmpeg

  • Bird Nest Webcam (cont.)

    Bird Nest Webcam (cont.)

    Version 1

    The setup described in the original post.

    • Webcam connected to Proxmox host
    • Webcam attached to VM running kubernetes
    • Pod mounting that /dev/video0 running ffmpeg

    It worked but there were some stability issues. Still not sure why, but sometimes, things would crash horribly. The stream would be fine for a while, then I would notice the live feed was down, and also that the Proxmox node was inaccessible. This happened a lot. And it was super frustrating.

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  • Bird Nest Webcam

    Bird Nest Webcam

    A spotted dove family decide to move into the windowsill area attached to my room, so I decided to put them on the internet.

    I’d always wanted to make a webcam livestream, but never got around to it. In the span of a few days, I went from zero, to:

    • Self-hosted livestream with motion
    • Python program to automatically post to Mastodon
    • ffmpeg streaming to YouTube and exposing an RTMP endpoint for other services to consume

    This is how I did it.

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