I recently run into the same issue since I want to serve my library to browsers. Surprisingly, the idea to send the stream through ffmpeg and deliver on the fly works quite well. The primary problem was to support seeking...
Following, you find code sniplets in Python using Flask to solve the problem:
We need a function to stream the content:
@app.route('/media/<path:path>.ogv')
def media_content_ogv(path):
d= os.path.abspath( os.path.join( config.media_folder, path ) )
if not os.path.isfile( d ): abort(404)
start= request.args.get("start") or 0
def generate():
cmdline= list()
cmdline.append( config.ffmpeg )
cmdline.append( "-i" )
cmdline.append( d );
cmdline.append( "-ss" )
cmdline.append( str(start) );
cmdline.extend( config.ffmpeg_args )
print cmdline
FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
proc= subprocess.Popen( cmdline, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=FNULL )
try:
f= proc.stdout
byte = f.read(512)
while byte:
yield byte
byte = f.read(512)
finally:
proc.kill()
return Response(response=generate(),status=200,mimetype='video/ogg',headers={'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*', "Content-Type":"video/ogg","Content-Disposition":"inline","Content-Transfer-Enconding":"binary"})
Then we need a function to return the duration:
@app.route('/media/<path:path>.js')
def media_content_js(path):
d= os.path.abspath( os.path.join( config.media_folder, path ) )
if not os.path.isfile( d ): abort(404)
cmdline= list()
cmdline.append( config.ffmpeg )
cmdline.append( "-i" )
cmdline.append( d );
duration= -1
FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
proc= subprocess.Popen( cmdline, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=FNULL )
try:
for line in iter(proc.stderr.readline,''):
line= line.rstrip()
#Duration: 00:00:45.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 302 kb/s
m = re.search('Duration: (..):(..):(..)\...', line)
if m is not None: duration= int(m.group(1)) * 3600 + int(m.group(2)) * 60 + int(m.group(3)) + 1
finally:
proc.kill()
return jsonify(duration=duration)
And finally, we hack that into HTML5 using videojs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href="//vjs.zencdn.net/4.5/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//vjs.zencdn.net/4.5/video.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<video id="video" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="auto" width="640" height="264">
</video>
<script>
var video= videojs('video');
video.src("media/testavi.avi.ogv");
// hack duration
video.duration= function() { return video.theDuration; };
video.start= 0;
video.oldCurrentTime= video.currentTime;
video.currentTime= function(time)
{
if( time == undefined )
{
return video.oldCurrentTime() + video.start;
}
console.log(time)
video.start= time;
video.oldCurrentTime(0);
video.src("media/testavi.avi.ogv?start=" + time);
video.play();
return this;
};
$.getJSON( "media/testavi.avi.js", function( data )
{
video.theDuration= data.duration;
});
</script>
</body>
A working example can be found at https://github.com/derolf/transcoder .
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