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title: "FFmpeg Camera"
description: "Instructions on how to integrate a video feed via FFmpeg as a camera within Home Assistant."
date: 2016-08-13 08:00
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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:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    input: FFMPEG_SUPPORTED_INPUT
    name: FFmpeg
    extra_arguments: -q:v 2
```

Configuration variables:

- **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 the [Troubleshooting section](/components/ffmpeg/#troubleshooting).