Re: ffmpeg hanging if input stream dies on Debian 12

[Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com>]

On 12/08/2025 13:30, Andrew Wood wrote:
> On Debian 11 and earlier if I ran ffmpeg to capture a stream from a 
> camera using rtsp it would close the file and exit if the stream died 
> at the transmitting end or due to a network failure. Since upgrading 
> to Debian 12 ffmpeg now just hangs indefinately if the stream dies. Is 
> this a change in the version of ffmpeg and is there a way to restore 
> the old behaviour please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
I tried using -xerror but that causes it to exit with this:

Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:0; previous: 0, current: 0; aborting.