[FFmpeg-devel] HLS Questions

Fri May 4 00:10:20 EEST 2018

Hi all,

Are these issues being tracked somewhere already? I would like to have this fixed. I'm happy to send pull requests, but I'll also have to get familiar with the AAC muxer code.
Where can I start learning that? Is that the best place to look for these issues?

Ronak

> On May 2, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Ronak Patel <ronak2121-at-yahoo.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> So I’ve noticed that ffmpeg does not always properly follow the number we specify for hls_time when generating hls content.
> 
> For example, if we have an MP4/AAC file at 44.1kHz sampling rate, we would expect that specifying 9.75238095238095 (420 frames) would return a manifest with the same exact amount of frames throughout.
> Instead, we see the AAC encoder vary the amount of frames without any real explanation.
> 
> When we run the following command:
> 
> /home/ronakp/bin/ffmpeg -i "${FILE}.mp4" -codec copy -hls_time 9.75238095238095 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_flags single_file+append_list -hls_playlist_type vod "${FILE}_10sec_v7.m3u8"
> 
> We get a manifest that looks like so:
> 
> #EXTM3U
> #EXT-X-VERSION:7
> #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
> #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
> #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
> #EXT-X-MAP:URI="bk_acx0_006556_22_32_10sec_v7.m4s",BYTERANGE="738 at 0"
> #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38733 at 738
> bk_acx0_006556_22_32_10sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.752381,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38531 at 39471
> bk_acx0_006556_22_32_10sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.752381,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38616 at 78002
> bk_acx0_006556_22_32_10sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.752381,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38545 at 116618
> bk_acx0_006556_22_32_10sec_v7.m4s
> 
> Notice the first segment there contains 2 more AAC frames...
> 
> Now, when we run the following command:
> 
> /home/ronakp/bin/ffmpeg -i "${FILE}.mp4" -codec copy -hls_time 0.975238095238095 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_flags single_file+append_list -hls_playlist_type vod "${FILE}_10sec_v7.m3u8"
> 
> #EXTM3U
> #EXT-X-VERSION:7
> #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:1
> #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
> #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
> #EXT-X-MAP:URI="bk_reco_004353_22_32_1sec_v7.m4s",BYTERANGE="738 at 0"
> #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY
> #EXTINF:0.975238,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:4110 at 738
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_1sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:0.975238,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:3897 at 4848
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_1sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:0.975238,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:4236 at 8745
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_1sec_v7.m4s
> #EXTINF:0.975238,
> 
> It seems to have the correct amount of frames everywhere.
> 
> Even more bizarre is if we run this command:
> 
> /home/ronakp/bin/ffmpeg -i "../${FILE}.mp4" -codec copy -hls_time 9.75238095238095 -hls_segment_filename 'file%03d.ts' -hls_segment_type mpegts -hls_playlist_type vod "${FILE}_10sec_v3.m3u8"
> 
> The manifest looks like the following:
> 
> #EXTM3U
> #EXT-X-VERSION:3
> #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
> #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
> #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
> #EXTINF:9.799778,
> file000.ts
> #EXTINF:9.706889,
> file001.ts
> #EXTINF:9.753333,
> file002.ts
> #EXTINF:9.799778,
> file003.ts
> #EXTINF:9.753333,
> file004.ts
> #EXTINF:9.706889,
> file005.ts
> #EXTINF:9.799778,
> file006.ts
> 
> The ts segments do not all have the same size, and seems like ffmpeg is unable to properly honor the supplied time.
> 
> And finally, when I run the following command:
> 
> /home/ronakp/bin/ffmpeg -i "${FILE}.mp4" -codec copy -f dash -single_file_name "${FILE}_1sec.m4s" -min_seg_duration 975238.095238095 -hls_playlist 1 "${FILE}_1sec.mpd"
> 
> I get a manifest that looks like:
> 
> #EXTM3U
> #EXT-X-VERSION:6
> #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
> #EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
> #EXT-X-MAP:URI="bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s",BYTERANGE="738 at 0"
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38996 at 738
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38754 at 39734
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38765 at 78488
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38583 at 117253
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s
> #EXTINF:9.798821,
> #EXT-X-BYTERANGE:38752 at 155836
> bk_reco_004353_22_32_10sec.m4s
> 
> Where every fragment has 1 extra frame in it.
> 
> Can someone please help get this fixed? The fragmentation should have been uniform throughout and exactly the same no matter which options I specify here.
> 
> For reference, I'm using the following versions of ffmpeg:
> 
> ffmpeg version N-90757-g2fc12f4 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
>  built with gcc 4.4.6 (GCC) 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
>  configuration: --prefix=/home/ronakp/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/ronakp/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/ronakp/ffmpeg_build/lib --extra-libs=-lpthread --extra-libs=-lm --bindir=/home/ronakp/bin --enable-gpl --enable-avisynth --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvorbis --enable-nonfree --enable-libvorbis --enable-version3 --disable-ffplay
>  libavutil      56. 15.100 / 56. 15.100
>  libavcodec     58. 19.100 / 58. 19.100
>  libavformat    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
>  libavdevice    58.  4.100 / 58.  4.100
>  libavfilter     7. 18.100 /  7. 18.100
>  libswscale      5.  2.100 /  5.  2.100
>  libswresample   3.  2.100 /  3.  2.100
>  libpostproc    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ronak
> 
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