Local ffmpeg output to S3 Bucket

Question

Heres my setup; - I have a local PC running ffmpeg with output configured to h.264 and aac - and S3 bucket created at AWS

what i need to do is, use ffmpeg [local] output to upload files directly to s3 bucket. PS: Planing to use that s3 bucket with cloudfront to allow 1 [one] user to stream a live event with about setup.

i could not find a way to specify output location as s3 bucket [with key]. any ideas as to how to do it? Thanks

Answer 1

You can:

1. Mount the S3 bucket using S3FS FUSE and then you output directly to it.

   How to Mount S3 Bucket on CentOS/RHEL and Ubuntu using S3FS

2. Segment the media for HTTP streaming and upload each segment and playlists using the S3 API and a script of your choice.

I'd go with 1 for a live stream.

Answer 2

It could be late to answer this question, but I think this may be useful for others.

You can use this method to write output file to your S3 server.

ffmpeg -re -i in.ts -f hls -method PUT http://example.com/live/out.m3u8

Read more in https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#hls-2