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 control for some 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" logging: help_text: Logging to file, if 'log_to_file' 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: false 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 that they get prepared in that way, so the output is unique. Set playing mode, like 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 '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. mode: playlist 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 volume: 1 ingest: help_text: Works not with direct hls output, it always needs full processing! Run a server for a ingest stream. This stream will override the normal streaming until is done. There is no authentication, this is up to you. The recommend way is to set address to localhost, stream to a local server with authentication and from there stream to this app. enable: false input_param: -f live_flv -listen 1 -i rtmp://localhost: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: "/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: "/mediaStorage" filler_clip: "/mediaStorage/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'. 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: ^.+[/\\](.*)(.mp4|.mkv)$ out: help_text: 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. 'preview' works only in streaming output and creates a separate preview stream. mode: 'stream' preview: false preview_param: >- -s 512x288 -c:v libx264 -crf 24 -x264-params keyint=50:min-keyint=25:scenecut=-1 -maxrate 800k -bufsize 1600k -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -profile:v Main -level 3.1 -c:a aac -ar 44100 -b:a 128k -flags +global_header -f flv rtmp://preview.local/live/stream 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 +global_header -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/stream