Add sub stream recording with adaptive quality playback (#24009)

* add sub stream recording with adaptive quality playback

Optionally record a second, lower bitrate stream alongside the main
recording stream via a `record_sub` input role and `record.sub` config block, with its own retention windows.
Recordings rows now carry the stream type plus the media details needed to serve both streams from one manifest: video codec, audio presence, audio codec and rate, and a record-time keyframe index.

Playback resolves coverage across both streams and merges them into a single VOD sequence, falling back to a discontinuity manifest with per-clip init segments when the media signatures differ. The player exposes a quality selector, and an auto governor picks the stream from stall time, bandwidth, codec support, and the save-data hint.

* fix tests and i18n
This commit is contained in:
Josh Hawkins
2026-09-12 07:30:04 -06:00
committed by Nicolas Mowen
parent f7c5500ea8
commit 1498231eb9
68 changed files with 6794 additions and 602 deletions
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@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ ffmpeg:
detect: -threads 2 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p
# Optional: output args for record streams (default: shown below)
record: preset-record-generic
# Optional: output args for sub stream record streams (default: the record output args above)
# record_sub: preset-record-generic
# Optional: Time in seconds to wait before ffmpeg retries connecting to the camera. (default: shown below)
# If set too low, frigate will retry a connection to the camera's stream too frequently, using up the limited streams some cameras can allow at once
# If set too high, then if a ffmpeg crash or camera stream timeout occurs, you could potentially lose up to a maximum of retry_interval second(s) of footage
@@ -643,6 +645,42 @@ record:
# For example, if the camera retain mode is "motion", the segments without motion are
# never stored, so setting the mode to "all" here won't bring them back.
mode: motion
# Optional: Sub stream recording settings
# Records a second, lower quality stream for quality selection during playback
# and extended low quality retention. Requires the record_sub role to be assigned
# to one of the camera's inputs.
sub:
# Optional: Enable sub stream recording (default: shown below)
# NOTE: Recording must also be enabled for sub stream recording to run.
enabled: False
# Optional: Continuous retention settings for sub stream recordings
continuous:
# Optional: Number of days to retain sub stream recordings regardless of tracked objects or motion (default: shown below)
days: 0
# Optional: Motion retention settings for sub stream recordings
motion:
# Optional: Number of days to retain sub stream recordings triggered by motion (default: shown below)
days: 0
# Optional: Retention settings for sub stream recordings of alerts
# NOTE: Pre and post capture windows are taken from the main alerts config above.
alerts:
# Required: Retention days (default: shown below)
days: 10
# Optional: Mode for retention. (default: shown below)
# all - save all sub stream recording segments for alerts regardless of activity
# motion - save all sub stream recording segments for alerts with any detected motion
# active_objects - save all sub stream recording segments for alerts with active/moving objects
mode: motion
# Optional: Retention settings for sub stream recordings of detections
# NOTE: Pre and post capture windows are taken from the main detections config above.
detections:
# Required: Retention days (default: shown below)
days: 10
# Optional: Mode for retention. (default: shown below)
# all - save all sub stream recording segments for detections regardless of activity
# motion - save all sub stream recording segments for detections with any detected motion
# active_objects - save all sub stream recording segments for detections with active/moving objects
mode: motion
# Optional: Configuration for the snapshots written to the clips directory for each tracked object
# Timestamp, bounding_box, crop and height settings are applied by default to API requests for snapshots.
@@ -894,7 +932,7 @@ cameras:
# Required: the path to the stream
# NOTE: path may include environment variables or docker secrets, which must begin with 'FRIGATE_' and be referenced in {}
- path: rtsp://viewer:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.10.10:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2
# Required: list of roles for this stream. valid values are: audio,detect,record
# Required: list of roles for this stream. valid values are: audio,detect,record,record_sub
# NOTICE: In addition to assigning the audio, detect, and record roles
# they must also be enabled in the camera config.
roles: