How to generate multiple bitrate HLS content from live rtsp stream

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I am gerating single bitrate live hls content from live rtsp stream . I am using the following command

ffmpeg -v verbose -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8080/test.sdp \
 -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -ac 1 -strict -2 -crf 18 -profile:v baseline \
 -maxrate 400k -bufsize 1835k -pix_fmt yuv420p -flags -global_header \
 -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 3 -hls_wrap 4 -hls_flags delete_segments \
 -start_number 1 /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/webapps/ROOT/hls/index1.m3u8

How can I modify the above ffmpg command to generate multiple bitrate output content ? Please help me.

Best Answer

ffmpeg -v verbose -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:8080/test.sdp \
-vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -ac 1 -strict -2 -crf 18 \
-profile:v baseline -maxrate 400k -bufsize 1835k \
-pix_fmt yuv420p -flags -global_header \
-hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 3 -hls_wrap 4 -hls_flags delete_segments \
-start_number 1 /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/webapps/ROOT/hls/index1.m3u8 \
-vcodec libx264 -acodec aac -ac 1 -strict -2 -crf 18 \
-profile:v baseline -maxrate 700k -bufsize 1835k \
-pix_fmt yuv420p -flags -global_header \
-hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 3 -hls_wrap 4 -hls_flags delete_segments \
-start_number 1 /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.53/webapps/ROOT/hls/index2.m3u8

and create index.m3u8 pointing to the streams above:

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=400000
hls/index1.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=700000
hls/index2.m3u8

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