With live ingest you have the possibility to switch from playlist, or folder mode to a live stream.
It works in a way, that it crate a ffmpeg instance in _listen_ (_server_) mode. For example when you stream over RTMP to it, you can set the ingest input parameters to:
When it notice a incoming stream, it will stop the current playing and continue the live source. The output will not interrupt, so you have a continuously output stream.
In rare cases it can happen, that for a short moment after switching the image freezes, but then it will continue. Also a short frame flickering can happen.
You need to know, that **ffmpeg in current version has no authentication mechanism and it just listen to the protocol and port (no app and stream name).**
ffplayout catches this problem with monitoring the output from ffmpeg. When the input is **rtmp** and the app or stream name differs to the config it stops the ingest process. So in a way we have a bit control, which stream we let come in and which not.
