ffmpeg-libav-tutorial VS frigate

The FFmpeg libraries are possibly the worst thing I have ever worked with in my life. I have never been more afraid to use a library than this one. This tutorial is very outdated, eg. `AVPicture`, which is used throughout, is completely deprecated and removed from the library, so you will simply encounter linker errors trying to follow this tutorial.

FFmpeg libraries randomly break themselves, so if you find an answer from a few years ago, chances are it's useless. Want to free an AVPacket? `av_free_packet` is deprecated,. You can use `av_packet_unref` (but there's _also_ a function named `av_packet_free` that doesn't do quite the same thing).

Most questions on Stack Overflow or related platforms have no replies, the library has literally zero documentation, it has very little error handling, which means if you're a bad C developer like me you are required to recompile FFmpeg with debugging information unstripped so you can trace segfaults in gdb.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial/ is a better and more up-to-date tutorial than this one.

I found this . I think you need an older version of ffmpeg to use the program, try to write it under the AUR to see if the mantainer is still active and knows the problem.

I think you're supposed to read the header files? I have no idea how people write ffmpeg stuff. The only good tutorial I've seen is: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Much of it I learned from An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (outdated, but the core idea persists), and from ffmpeg-libav-tutorial.

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial#learn-ffmpeg-libav-the-hard-way

If you are not familiar with libav, ffmpeg-libav-tutorial is a great introduction.

Try this tutorial: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

Btw, if you want to encode anything higher than 1080p60 using the Videocore VI, you'll need to use an external library like ffmpeg. There is a good tutorial for ffmpeg too - https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial . This should teach you how to encode the raw video stream you get from the camera into a codec of your choice.

Am in to selfhosting and homeserver, finally got to try Frigate with some aliexpress camera that was not mine. Love it.

However, I have had success using IP Camera app with Frigate. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam https://frigate.video/

Frigate https://frigate.video/ and ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/ come to mind. Blue Iris https://blueirissoftware.com/ is not open source but is what I prefer to use for my PoE systems ($80/yr)

Logger: custom_components.frigate Source: custom_components/frigate/__init__.py:201 Integration: Frigate (documentation, issues) First occurred: 1:59:34 AM (2 occurrences) Last logged: 1:59:48 AM

Engineering implies working within constraints. Most people in this realm only have to deal with the spouse acceptance factor as a limiter.

Went from openhab -> homeassistant -> Node-RED. Then sprinkle in MySensors, Frigate, and Double-Take, but not on just the entrance, go for the perimeter then defense in depth.

https://www.mysensors.org/

https://frigate.video/

https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take

- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...

I have found my frigate+ model to be much more accurate and crazy good even at night. Will be curious how things change when it snows here more often, since I've not submitted any examples of winter at this house yet.

According to the author of that PR, they're using 10% of 1 NPU core on 3 cameras: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382#issueco...

The bottleneck instead will probably be the video stream decoding speed, especially as the SoC's hardware decoder isn't being used yet.

2023-11-13 11:16:39.073 ERROR (MainThread) [custom_components.frigate] Using a Frigate server (http://ccab4aaf-frigate-fa:5000) with version 0.12.1-367d724 <= 0.12.1 which is not compatible -- you must upgrade: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases