An unusual set of requirements led us to utilize FFMPEG, a widely used command line tool, to integrate video manipulation capabilities into a custom FileMaker Pro solution for capturing and storing video from multiple cameras concurrently.
In the previous blog post in this series, we explained the process of streaming video and audio from surveillance cameras via FileMaker. In this post, we’ll cover the steps we took using FFmpeg to convert the downloaded video files and merge them into a single file.
In our first blog post in this series, we provided some detail about how we integrated FFmpeg into a custom Claris FileMaker solution. This article discusses the next step in that solution – streaming the audio and video from the cameras after starting a recording.
