general: help_text: 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 service on linux. 'stop_threshold' stop ffplayout, if it is async in time above this value. A number below 3 can cause unexpected errors. stop_threshold: 11 rpc_server: help_text: Run a JSON RPC server, for getting infos about current playing and for some control functions. enable: true address: 127.0.0.1:7070 authorization: av2Kx8g67lF9qj5wEH3ym1bI4cCs mail: help_text: Send error messages to email address, like missing playlist; invalid json format; missing clip path. Leave recipient blank, if you don't need this. 'mail_level' can be INFO, WARNING or ERROR. 'interval' means seconds until a new mail will be sended. subject: Playout Error smtp_server: mail.example.org starttls: true sender_addr: ffplayout@example.org sender_pass: "abc123" recipient: mail_level: ERROR interval: 30 logging: help_text: If 'log_to_file' is true, log to file, when is false log to console. 'backup_count' says how long log files will be saved in days. 'local_time' to false will set log timestamps to UTC. Path to /var/log/ only if you run this program as daemon. 'log_level' can be DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR. 'ffmpeg_level' can be info, warning, error. log_to_file: true backup_count: 7 local_time: true timestamp: true log_path: /var/log/ffplayout/ log_level: DEBUG ffmpeg_level: error processing: help_text: Default processing for all clips, to have them unique. Mode can be playlist or folder. '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 'width:height', for example '100:-1' for proportional scaling. With 'logo_opacity' logo can become transparent. With 'audio_tracks' it is possible to configure how many audio tracks should be processed. 'audio_channels' can be use, if audio has more channels then only stereo. 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, 'loudnorm_ingest' allows normalization only on ingest stream. 'loud_*' can adjust the loudnorm filter. With 'custom_filter' it is possible, to apply further filters. The filter outputs should end with [c_v_out] for video filter, and [c_a_out] for audio filter. mode: playlist width: 1024 height: 576 aspect: 1.778 fps: 25 add_logo: true logo: /usr/share/ffplayout/logo.png logo_scale: logo_opacity: 0.7 logo_filter: overlay=W-w-12:12 audio_tracks: 1 audio_channels: 2 add_loudnorm: false loudnorm_ingest: false loud_i: -18 loud_tp: -1.5 loud_lra: 11 volume: 1 custom_filter: ingest: help_text: Run a server for a ingest stream. This stream will override the normal streaming until is done. There is only a very simple authentication mechanism, which check if the stream name is correct. enable: false input_param: -f live_flv -listen 1 -i rtmp://127.0.0.1:1936/live/stream playlist: help_text: > 'path' can be a path to a single file, or a directory. For directory put only the root folder, for example '/playlists', subdirectories are read by the script. Subdirectories needs this structure '/playlists/2018/01'. '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. 'infinit: true' works with single playlist file and loops it infinitely. path: /var/lib/ffplayout/playlists day_start: "5:59:25" length: "24:00:00" infinit: false storage: help_text: Play ordered or randomly 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: "/var/lib/ffplayout/tv-media" filler_clip: "/var/lib/ffplayout/tv-media/filler/filler.mp4" extensions: - "mp4" - "mkv" shuffle: true text: help_text: Overlay text in combination with libzmq for remote text manipulation. On windows fontfile path need to be like this 'C\:/WINDOWS/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf'. '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: true text_from_filename: false fontfile: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf" style: "x=(w-tw)/2:y=(h-line_h)*0.9:fontsize=24:fontcolor=#ffffff:box=1:boxcolor=#000000:boxborderw=4" regex: ^.+[/\\](.*)(.mp4|.mkv)$ out: help_text: The final playout compression. Set the settings to your needs. 'mode' has the options 'desktop', 'hls', 'null', 'stream'. Use 'stream' and adjust 'output_param:' settings when you want to stream to a rtmp/rtsp/srt/... server. In production don't serve hls playlist with ffpapi, use nginx or another web server! mode: hls output_param: >- -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -x264-params keyint=50:min-keyint=25:scenecut=-1 -maxrate 1300k -bufsize 2600k -preset faster -tune zerolatency -profile:v Main -level 3.1 -c:a aac -ar 44100 -b:a 128k -flags +cgop -f hls -hls_time 6 -hls_list_size 600 -hls_flags append_list+delete_segments+omit_endlist -hls_segment_filename /usr/share/ffplayout/public/live/stream-%d.ts /usr/share/ffplayout/public/live/stream.m3u8