ts-mp4 - MP4 streaming media, implement as plugin of Apache TrafficServer
This module is under active development and is production ready.
This module provides streaming media server support for MP4 files. User can send a HTTP request to the server with start argument which is measured in seconds, and the server will respond with the stream such that its start position corresponds to the requested time, for example:
http://v.foo.com/dota2.mp4?start=290.12This allows performing a random seeking at any time. We can use flash player, vlc, mplayer or chrome to play the streaming media.
We can write this in remap.config:
map http://v.foo.com/ http://i.foo.com/ @plugin=/xx/libtsmp4.so- linux/freebsd 64bits
- trafficserver
step1: get ts-mp4
git clone https://github.com/portl4t/ts-mp4.git
cd ts-mp4/src
step2: build, requires linux/freebsd (64bits is recommended)
make
step3: modify remap.config and restart the trafficserver
It is not a good idea to cache a large mp4 file, as we have to generate new meta data if start exists, and it will take a long time to accomplish. As far as I know, many video sites will cut a large video file into many small mp4 files, and each small mp4 file will be less than 80M(bytes), it will be a reasonable choice.
- 2015-01-08, prepare to add to master
- 2015-01-01, output from the last key sample if start time can not be reached
- 2014-12-30, change TSIOBufferReaderCopy to IOBufferReaderCopy, support freebsd
- 2014-12-29, fix integer overflow, support more than one stts entries.
- 2014-12-27, fix memory leak.
- 2014-12-24, fix bugs that cache can be corrupted.
- 2014-12-21, first commit.
- ts-flv FLV streaming media, implement as plugin of Apache TrafficServer.