is it possible to stop a encoding process remotly?

[efraimjer]

Question

Im converting a few ip cameras from rtsp/rtmp to hls and recording the streams using a node js server, but i need from time to time do stop the encoding process and then restart it later, by command, is there any option through the api to do that?

[aler9]

Hello, the server by itself doesn't perform any encoding, eventually it performs remuxing (changes protocol without touching the codec).

If you want to stop the remuxing process from RTSP/RTMP to HLS, you can use the API to start and stop the HLS server by using the /config/global/patch endpoint.

If on the other hand you are performing re-encoding by using ffmpeg or gstreamer inside runOnReady or any other hook, you can use the API to fill runOnReady with the command you are using to re-encode in order to start the encoding process, and use the API to clear runOnReady when you don't want to re-encode anymore.

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