Ffmpeg 20 second reconnection mechanism

FFmpeg itself does not have a built-in reconnection mechanism. However, you can implement a 20 second reconnection mechanism using an external script or program that interacts with FFmpeg.

One way to do this is to use a shell script that runs FFmpeg in a loop with a 20 second sleep in between attempts. For example:

while true
do
    ffmpeg -i <input_stream> <output_options> <output_file>
    sleep 20
done

This script will run FFmpeg continuously, and if the connection is lost or the stream stops for any reason, it will wait for 20 seconds before attempting to reconnect and restart the stream.

Another option is to use a monitoring tool that checks the status of the FFmpeg process and restarts it if necessary. This can be done with a process monitoring tool like systemd or supervisord, or with a custom script that periodically checks the process status and restarts it if needed.