CANNOT get FFserver stream going - ffmpeg

Question

I want to preface this question with the fact that I am very very new to ffmpeg and even newer to ffserver.
I cannot, for the life of me, get this thing going.
I get:
"Too large number of skipped frames 882933314374 > 60000"
Also, ffplay gives me first frame is no keyframe
Here is my ffserver.conf file
HTTPPort 8090
HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 1000
MaxClients 10
MaxBandwidth 2000000
NoDefaults
###############################################################################################
<Feed test.ffm>
File /tmp/test.ffm
FileMaxSize 10000M
ACL ALLOW localhost
</Feed>
<Stream status.html>
Format status
# Only allow local people to get the status
ACL allow localhost
</Stream>
<Stream test.avi>
Feed test.ffm
Format avi
ACL ALLOW localhost
ACL ALLOW 192.168.1.0
NoAudio
VideoSize 3840x2160
VideoFrameRate 30
Preroll 10
</Stream>
###############################################################################################
And here is my ffmpeg command
ffmpeg -i smaller.avi http://localhost:8090/test.ffm
I've been fighting with this thing all day, googling like a madman the entire time. What am I doing wrong? Any help will be welcomed enthusiastically.

Answer 1

These are my notes as I'm currently working through a similar process:
Video Streaming from ffserver for Raspberry PI - Unoptimized
Follow this tutorial: (I know people don't like links but this tut worked)
https://oscarliang.com/webcam-streaming-video-raspberry-pi-via-browser/
Download ffmpeg for windows (or linux)
git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
// Keep your ffserver.conf simple at first
HTTPPort 8090
HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 1000
MaxClients 10
MaxBandwidth 2000000
NoDefaults
###############################################################################################
<Feed test.ffm>
File /tmp/test.ffm
FileMaxSize 10M
</Feed>
<Stream test.avi>
Feed test.avi
Format mjpeg
VideoSize 640x480
VideoFrameRate 20
VideoBitRate 2000
VideoQMin 2
VideoQMax 10
</Stream>
Put endpoint at http://<localhost>/webcam.mjpeg
Makesure webcam.sh contains:
ffserver -f /etc/ffserver.conf \
& ffmpeg -v verbose \
-r 30 \
-s 640x480 \
-f video4linux2 \
-i /dev/video0 http://localhost/webcam.ffm
Run the following:
// Use the following instead of vlc as this has faster streaming
Win:
ffplay.exe http://localhost/webcam.mjpeg
Linux:
ffplay http://localhost/webcam.mjpeg