paulcacheux / sr_playlist_proxy

Media/Playlist proxy

Media/Playlist Proxy - Technical Test

This project was built for a recruitment technical test

This project is a media proxy between a media player (VLC for example) and the actual media server.

Absolute URLs rewriting

Absolute URLs would normally exit the proxy simply because the media player would connect directly to the new base URL. To manage this, the proxy will rewrite the playlist URLs with relative ones, containing the original URL as a base64 path segment, following a trigger segment that should be unique enough (relative_to_absolute_proxy_path by default).

Dependencies

• Rust

Usage

cargo run --release -- BASE_URL

Example

To stream the following playlist: https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8

you would run the proxy with

cargo run --release -- https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/

and use

http://localhost:3000/content/MI201109210084_1/m3u8s/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.m3u8

as a media link in your media player (VLC for example).