Wait sometime before closing muxers on EOF due connection error

[kirek007]

Describe the feature

My use case is that I'm streaming over RTMP and reading HLS. Sometimes there is connectivity issues so streaming to RTMP might be off let's say for 60sec or so. Currently, it means that HLS muxer is also terminated. Then on reconnection old HLS fragments are not available for the end client.
Is there any other way to improve that flow?

[hqkirkland]

I'd also like some kind of feature which would wait for a publisher to reconnect in the event of failure. This may also help for cutting between two source files: I use RTSP as ingest and FFMPEG tears down the connection after completing a file, which also terminates all client connections (RTSP, WebRTC).

It would be nice if there was a feature to send black frames and keep the connection alive for up to n seconds. Not sure how complicated an endeavor that would be. I suspect it's not entirely appropriate for a media server like mediaMTX to be this arbiter, and instead a source pipe should manage the cutover itself.

But as of yet, I haven't found a good "intermediary" kind of stream which continues to output while it waits for the source to reconnect. Would be nice if this was just built-in.

[kirek007]

I'm new to the project, but it looks amazing! tho, it lacks some features that are vital to me.
It would be great if the maintainer could point me in the right direction where to implement this feature.