linux – How to set a ffmpeg timeout when downloading a hls stream?
I am downloading a video from a HLS stream like this:
ffmpeg -i "http://example.com/stream.m3u8" -c copy -to "1:00:00" video.ts
However from time to time the server will have issues and ffmpeg will wait very long to download a single ts segment. Is there a way I can make ffmpeg stop (and return an error) if a certain timeout is reached on every individual .ts segment?
I tried adding -timeout 5000000
(5 seconds) but it doesn’t seem to do the job, unless I am using it incorrectly. Any help would be appreciated.
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