We are using ffmpeg to create a video playlist consisting of 2 sec chunks send by a HIKVISION DS-2CD2143G0-I IP camera. When the camera switches from day mode to night mode the length of the chunks changes from 2 to 4 sec. When the camera switches back to day mode the chunks again have a length of 2 sec. This is an excerpt of a playlist:
chunk-stream0-17750.m4s
#EXTINF:2.000000,
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2022-09-19T22:26:59.418+0200
chunk-stream0-17751.m4s
#EXTINF:2.793047,
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2022-09-19T22:27:01.418+0200
chunk-stream0-17752.m4s
#EXTINF:3.998984,
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2022-09-19T22:27:04.211+0200
chunk-stream0-17753.m4s
#EXTINF:3.998984,
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2022-09-19T22:27:08.210+0200
chunk-stream0-17754.m4s
This is the call of ffmpeg (with APP_RECORDING_SEG_DUR = 2):
window_size = int(Settings.APP_RECORDING_PRE_DUR / Settings.APP_RECORDING_SEG_DUR)
# Command to start ffmpeg dash muxer
cmd = ''
cmd += f'ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -stimeout 1000000 -rtsp_transport tcp -i "{rtsp_url}" '
cmd += f'-map 0:0 -c:v:0 copy -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov -an -f dash -use_template 1 '
cmd += f'-use_timeline 0 -index_correction 0 -seg_duration {Settings.APP_RECORDING_SEG_DUR} '
cmd += f'-hls_playlist 1 -dash_segment_type mp4 -streaming 1 -remove_at_exit 1 '
cmd += f'-window_size {window_size} -extra_window_size {20 / Settings.APP_RECORDING_SEG_DUR} '
cmd += f'{(self._target_path / playlist).as_posix()}'
Has anybody observed a similar behaviour and knows how to stop the camera from changing the size of the video chunks?