file

#!/bin/bash
# Output MJPEG stream from a video file
# Bonus: the piping strategy sidesteps difficult synchronization issues when directly opening the video file with OpenCV, keeping synchronization errors to about +/- 0.05 sec rather than a steady drift
FILE=$1
shift
ffmpeg -re -loglevel panic -i "$FILE" -vcodec mjpeg -f mjpeg - $@