general: helptext: Sometimes it can happen, that a file is corrupt but still playable, this can produce an streaming error over all following files. The only way in this case is, to stop ffplayout and start it again. Here we only say when it stops, the starting process is in your hand. Best way is a systemd serivce on linux. 'stop_threshold' stop ffplayout, if it is async in time above this value. stop_threshold: 11 mail: helptext: Send error messages to email address, like missing playlist; unvalid json format; missing clip path. Leave recipient blank, if you don't need this. 'mail_level' can be WARNING or ERROR. subject: "Playout Error" smpt_server: "mail.example.org" smpt_port: 587 sender_addr: "ffplayout@example.org" sender_pass: "abc123" recipient: mail_level: "ERROR" logging: helptext: Logging to file, if 'log_to_file' False log to console. 'backup_count' says how long log files will be saved in days. Path to /var/log/ only if you run this program as deamon. 'log_level' can be DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR. 'ffmpeg_level' can be INFO, WARNING, ERROR. log_to_file: True backup_count: 7 log_path: "/var/log/ffplayout/" log_level: "DEBUG" ffmpeg_level: "ERROR" processing: helptext: Default processing, for all clips that they get prepared in that way, so the output is unique. 'aspect' must be a float number. 'logo' is only used if the path exist. 'logo_scale' scale the logo to target size, leave it blank when no scaling is needed, format is 'number:number', for example '100:-1' for proportional scaling. With 'logo_opacity' logo can become transparent. With 'logo_filter' 'overlay=W-w-12:12' you can modify the logo position. With 'use_loudnorm' you can activate single pass EBU R128 loudness normalization. 'loud_*' can adjust the loudnorm filter. 'output_count' sets the outputs for the filtering, > 1 gives the option to use the same filters for multiple outputs. This outputs can be taken in 'ffmpeg_param', names will be vout2, vout3; aout2, aout2 etc. width: 1024 height: 576 aspect: 1.778 fps: 25 add_logo: True logo: "docs/logo.png" logo_scale: logo_opacity: 0.7 logo_filter: "overlay=W-w-12:12" add_loudnorm: False loud_I: -18 loud_TP: -1.5 loud_LRA: 11 output_count: 1 playlist: helptext: Set 'playlist_mode' to 'False' if you want to play clips from the 'storage' section. Put only the root path here, for example '/playlists' subfolders are readed by the script. Subfolders needs this structur '/playlists/2018/01' (/playlists/year/month). 'day_start' means at which time the playlist should start, leave day_start blank when playlist should always start at the begin. 'length' represent the target length from playlist, when is blank real length will not consider. playlist_mode: True path: "/playlists" day_start: "5:59:25" length: "24:00:00" storage: helptext: Play ordered or ramdomly files from path. 'filler_clip' is for fill the end to reach 24 hours, it will loop when is necessary. 'extensions' search only files with this extension. Set 'shuffle' to 'True' to pick files randomly. path: "/mediaStorage" filler_clip: "/mediaStorage/filler/filler.mp4" extensions: - ".mp4" - ".mkv" shuffle: True text: helptext: Overlay text in combination with libzmq for remote text manipulation. On windows fontfile path need to be like this 'C\:/WINDOWS/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf'. In a standard environment the filter drawtext node is Parsed_drawtext_2. 'over_pre' if True text will be overlay in pre processing. Continue same text over multiple files is in that mode not possible. 'text_from_filename' activate the extraction from text of a filename. With 'style' you can define the drawtext parameters like position, color, etc. Post Text over API will override this. With 'regex' you can format file names, to get a title from it. add_text: False over_pre: False bind_address: "127.0.0.1:5555" fontfile: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf" text_from_filename: False style: "x=(w-tw)/2:y=(h-line_h)*0.9:fontsize=24:fontcolor=#ffffff:box=1:boxcolor=#000000:boxborderw=4" regex: "^(.*)_" out: helptext: The final playout compression. Set the settings to your needs. 'mode' has the standard options 'desktop', 'hls', 'stream'. Self made outputs can be define, by adding script in output folder with an 'output' function inside. 'stream_output' is for streaming output, two ffmpeg instances are fired up, for pre- and post-processing. 'hls_output' is for direct output to hls playlist, without pre- and post-processing, mode must be 'hls'. mode: 'stream' service_name: "Live Stream" service_provider: "example.org" ffmpeg_param: >- -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -x264-params keyint=50:min-keyint=25:scenecut=-1 -maxrate 1300k -bufsize 2600k -preset medium -profile:v Main -level 3.1 -c:a aac -ar 44100 -b:a 128k stream_output: >- -flags +global_header -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/stream hls_output: >- -flags +cgop -f hls -hls_time 6 -hls_list_size 600 -hls_flags append_list+delete_segments+omit_endlist+program_date_time -hls_segment_filename /var/www/srs/live/stream-%09d.ts /var/www/srs/live/stream.m3u8