Recording stream to mp4 file

[fabiox23]

Hi, thanks for sharing this code, it works great.

Is there a way to record the data stream into an mp4 file either from the server side or from the client side? I have tried to use ffmpeg to capture the stream from http://:8000 but that didn't work.

Any thoughts on how that could be implemented?

Cheers.

[dans98]

Is there a way to record the data stream into an mp4 file either from the server side or from the client side? I have tried to use ffmpeg to capture the stream from http://:8000 but that didn't work.

You can't really capture the stream without a great deal of custom code and hackery.

IMO, you best bet would be to capture the raw h.264 to a file on the pi directly, and then transcode/encapsulate it later with ffmpeg.
https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes1.html#recording-video-to-a-file

[fabiox23]

You can capture and record an rtmp stream or hls stream with ffmpeg but I am guessing this is somewhat different as it is using websockets to provide the stream to the client browser.