Md. Sumon Islam sumonst21

Introduction

Nginx (pronounced "engine-ex") can be used as an open source reverse proxy server, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and not to forget a fast and powerful web server.

Requirements

Ubuntu server

Installation

Secured HLS setup with Nginx as media server

This example is part of this article.

This is an example for an HLS delivery with basic security. Nginx compiled with nginx-rtmp-module & secure-link is used as media server. Features:

Domain filtering
Referrer filtering
Embed buster

Note: This is an older post that I did back when I thought I might have time to be a blogger. Oh I was oh so wrong. However, it has proven useful for some folks on stackoverflow. Thus I'm keeping it alive here on Gist.

One of my past projects dealt heavily with an open source Apple technology called HTTP Live Streaming. It’s an HTTP based streaming protocol that at its most fundamental level provides a way to stream video and audio from just about any server with nothing but a few free software tools provided by Apple**. However, it has a few additional features that I think make it a really exciting tool. Yet, I haven’t seen HTTP Live Streaming used very much. This is probably mainly due to the combination of a lack of good/clear documentation, and Apple’s Live Streaming Developer Tools being command line based also make the barrier to entry higher than many developers want to deal with.

The hope is to share my understanding of how to use this technology to:

Direct copy of pre-encoded file:

$ ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -codec: copy -start_number 0 -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 0 -f hls filename.m3u8

	# ---------------------------------------
	# Main Module
	# ---------------------------------------
	user nginx;

	# This number should be, at maximum, the number of CPU cores on your system.
	worker_processes 2;
	pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

	# Only log critical errors


	#user nobody;
	worker_processes 4;

	#error_log logs/error.log;
	#error_log logs/error.log notice;
	#error_log logs/error.log info;

	#pid logs/nginx.pid;

	<!doctype html>
	<title>Site Maintenance</title>
	<style>
	body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
	h1 { font-size: 50px; }
	body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
	article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
	a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
	a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
	</style>

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<title></title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<video></video>
	<br/>
	<input type="file" name="file" id="fileItem" onchange="onChange()" >

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset=utf-8 />
	<title>videojs-contrib-hls embed</title>

	<!--

	Uses the latest versions of video.js and videojs-contrib-hls.

	user www-data;
	worker_processes auto;
	pid /run/nginx.pid;

	events {
	worker_connections 768;
	# multi_accept on;
	}

	http {