[Question]: Frigate 14 beta2, live mode - how it works?

[lineumaciel]

What is your question:

Hi,

How exactly does new “smart” live mode work?. MSE is always selected?.

Regardless of the stream configurations in go2rtc, MSE is always used and there is no way to switch to a stable stream in WebRTC.

While it works well on desktop browsers, mobile versions are a real nightmare.

Is there any chance to return to live_mode which was removed with beta2?

I'm not saying the new solution is bad but for me personally the ability to auto/mse/webrtc in live mode would be just perfect.

[NickM-27]

why does mse not work on mobile? what mobile device, browser are you on?

[lineumaciel]

I'm not saying that MSE doesn't work. But compared to WebRTC, MSE on mobile safari leaves a lot to be desired.

In my case, WebRTC performs much better than MSE. I have already changed go2rtc configurations and eliminated the two-way audio that MSE has a problem with(no picture).

Clicking microphone to make the stream switch from MSE to WebRTC is a bit cumbersome and for me it is a step backwards.

I thought that disabling the flag in Safari would allow switching to WebRTC automatically but it results in a message about no support for MSE.

I have checked several ios 17.5 devices and everywhere i have the same symptom.

In my test configuration it was:

`
go2rtc:

  streams:
    tapo:
      - tapo:https://[email protected]
    tapolive:
      - ffmpeg:tapo#video=h264#audio=aac#hardware=vaapi
    tapodetect:
      - ffmpeg:tapo#video=h264#width=1280#raw=-fpsmax 10#hardware=vaapi

cameras:

  tapo:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      output_args:
        record: preset-record-generic
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp:https://localhost:8554/tapo
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp:https://localhost:8554/tapodetect
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect

live:
  stream_name: tapo`

It worked without any problems until version 14 beta1. Now the stream is not showing an image. The image appears when I click on the microphone icon(stream changes from MSE to WebRTC). I currently use as live tapolive.

{ "type": "MSE/WebSocket active consumer", "remote_addr": "192.168.4.250, ::ffff:172.18.0.2, 127.0.0.1:58822", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0", "medias": [ "video, sendonly, H264, H265", "audio, sendonly, MPEG4-GENERIC, PCMA, PCMU, L16, PCML, OPUS" ], "senders": [ "255 H264, bytes=3674439, receivers=1", "8 FLAC/8000, bytes=660992, receivers=1" ], "send": 5422764 }, { "type": "MSE/WebSocket active consumer", "remote_addr": "192.168.4.232, ::ffff:172.18.0.2, 127.0.0.1:47742", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1", "medias": [ "video, sendonly, H264, H265", "audio, sendonly, MPEG4-GENERIC" ], "senders": [ "255 H264, bytes=451658, receivers=1" ], "send": 475221 } ] }

[hawkeye217]

It's hard to know exactly what's happening in your situation, but I have committed some fixes for a very specific issue I was seeing on one of my own cameras. Let me know if this improves it for you. #11745

[lineumaciel]

It works perfectly :-), thank you!

[hawkeye217]

Great!