gt945 / xvod

Websocket Live Streaming with on-the-fly encoding of any video file for Chrome/Firefox

xvod

Streaming and on-the-fly transcoding of any video file for Chrome, Firefox. etc.

Features

• Simple file management
• Support DLNA, push your video file to DLNA renders
• Support 4x,8x,16x playback speed(Need powerfull server)
• Seek by gesture on touchable device
• Auto probe subtitle file
• Seek by thumbnails
• Support PIP(If supported by browser)

Requirements

• Tested on Linux.
• node.js (Tested on >0.8.14)
• ffmpeg (needs >v3, must be built with libx264, v2 not test, but should work)
• Chrome, Firefox or any browser with MSE, mp4, h264, aac support

Installation

• git clone --recursive -b xvod ...
• cd hls-vod
• npm install

Running

• Make sure you have node.js and ffmpeg (>3.0) in PATH
• node hls-vod.js --root-path /mnt/videos
• Browse to http://localhost:4040/

Arguments

--root-path PATH - Root path allowed to read files in.

--transcoder-path PATH - Will use ffmpeg in PATH if not specified

For more arguments run it without arguments: node hls-vod.js

Compiling ffmpeg

You need a fairly recent version

hint: ./configure --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree make -j9 && make install