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Live Ingest
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:
-f live_flv -listen 1 -i rtmp://localhost:1936/live/stream
Have in mind, that the ingest mode can't pull from a server, it only can act as its own server and listen for income.
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 path or app name).
For security you should not expose the ingest to the world. You localhost only, with an relay/reverse proxy where you can make your authentication. You could also use a patch for ffmpeg, but there is no guarantee if this really works.
In theory you can use every protocol from ffmpeg which support a listen mode.