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Our Coptic Orthodox tradition has so much inherent beauty and such an incredible, rich history. Its contributions to the whole of Christendom cannot be overstated. Much of what we take for granted today, such as monasticism, the Jesus Prayer, Biblical exegesis, Trinitarian theology, and Christology, to name a few, were developed by the Egyptian ascetics and Alexandrian fathers. Being ancient, our…
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As covered in a previous post, FFmpeg is used at our church to transcode an RTSP stream and send that stream to an RTMP(S) ingestion endpoint. H.264 was previously being used as RTMP didn’t support any other modern codecs. This however changed with the new Enhanced RTMP standard which added support for VP9, H.265 (HEVC), and AV1 in the FLV container. FFmpeg subsequently added support for this new…
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We regularly livestream services at my church for those that are unable to attend in person. The entire system is fully automated, muxing an RTSP stream from an IP camera with audio from the main mixer. This all runs on a headless Linux machine via a cron job using FFmpeg, using the pulse filter to pull audio from the machine’s mic/line-in jack. It’s possible ALSA could be used directly here,…
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