I'm using ffmpeg to generate a sine tone in real time for 10 seconds. Unfortunately, ffmpeg seems to flush the output file only rarely, every few seconds. I'd like it to flush every 2048 bytes (=2bytes sample width*1024 samples, my custom chunk size).
The output of the following script:
import os
import time
import subprocess
cmd = 'ffmpeg -y -re -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=440:duration=10" -blocksize 2048 test.wav'
subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
time.sleep(0.1)
while True:
print(os.path.getsize("test.wav"))
time.sleep(0.1)
looks like:
[...]
78
78
78
262222
262222
262222
[...]
A user on the #ffmpeg IRC proposed using
ffmpeg -re -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=1000:duration=10" -f wav pipe: > test.wav
which works. But can this be achieved just using ffmpeg?
For output to a file, ffmpeg waits to fill a buffer of 256 KiB before a write.
You can disable that behaviour, using flush_packets
.
ffmpeg -y -re -f lavfi -i "sine=f=440:d=10" -blocksize 2048 -flush_packets 1 test.wav
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