diff --git a/source/_components/camera.ffmpeg.markdown b/source/_components/camera.ffmpeg.markdown index 8fceafe95c3..be2aa38dbc2 100644 --- a/source/_components/camera.ffmpeg.markdown +++ b/source/_components/camera.ffmpeg.markdown @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: page title: "FFmpeg Camera" -description: "Instructions how to integrate a Video fees with FFmpeg as cameras within Home Assistant." +description: "Instructions on how to integrate a video feed via FFmpeg as a camera within Home Assistant." date: 2016-08-13 08:00 sidebar: true comments: false @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ha_release: 0.26 --- -The `ffmpeg` platform allows you to use every video feed with [FFmpeg](http://www.ffmpeg.org/) as camera in Home Assistant. The input for ffmpeg need to support that could have multiple connection to source (input) in same time. For every user in UI and all 10 seconds (snapshot image) it make a new connection/reading to source. Normally that should never be a trouble only in strange selfmade constructs can be make mistakes. +The `ffmpeg` platform allows you to use any video feed as camera in Home Assistant via [FFmpeg](http://www.ffmpeg.org/). This video source must support multiple simultaenous reads, because for every concurrent Home Assistant user, a connection will be made to the source every 10 seconds. Normally this should not be a problem. To enable your FFmpeg feed in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: @@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ camera: Configuration variables: -- **input** (*Required*): A ffmpeg compatible input file, stream or feed. -- **name** (*Optional*): This parameter allows you to override the name of your camera. -- **extra_arguments** (*Optional*): Extra option they will pass to `ffmpeg`. i.e. image quality or video filter options. +- **input** (*Required*): An FFmpeg-compatible input file, stream, or feed. +- **name** (*Optional*): Override the name of your camera. +- **extra_arguments** (*Optional*): Extra options to pass to `ffmpeg`, e.g. image quality or video filter options. ### {% linkable_title Image quality %} You can control the `image quality` with [`extra_arguments`](https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-codecs.html#jpeg2000) `-q:v 2-32` or with lossless option `-pred 1`. -If you are running into trouble with this sensor, please refer to this [Troubleshooting section](/components/ffmpeg/#troubleshooting). +If you are running into trouble with this sensor, please refer to the [Troubleshooting section](/components/ffmpeg/#troubleshooting).