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Express server used to launch ffmpeg, transcode stream from peerflix and serve it to HTML5 video tag
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var express = require('express'), | |
http = require('http'), | |
path = require('path'), | |
child_process = require("child_process"); | |
var app = express(); | |
// Server settings | |
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 9999); | |
app.use(express.favicon()); | |
app.use(express.logger('dev')); | |
app.use(express.bodyParser()); | |
app.use(express.methodOverride()); | |
app.use(app.router); | |
app.use(express.errorHandler()); | |
// Serve the video | |
app.get('/',function(req,res){ | |
// Write header | |
res.writeHead(200, { | |
'Content-Type': 'video/webm' | |
}); | |
// Start ffmpeg | |
var ffmpeg = child_process.spawn("./ffmpeg", [ | |
// Real time mode | |
// "-re", | |
// Source | |
"-i", "http://localhost:8888", | |
// Map multiple streams | |
"-map", "0:0", "-map", "0:1", "-map", "0:1", | |
// Some optimizations | |
// "-preset","ultrafast", | |
// "-tune","zerolatency", | |
// Motion algorithms off | |
// "-me_method","zero", | |
// "-flags2","fast", | |
// Quantization | |
// "-qmin","5", | |
// "-qmax","5", | |
// Video: VP8 encoding | |
"-c:v","libvpx", | |
// quality | |
"-crf","40", | |
// target bit rate | |
"-b:v","4M", | |
// Audio: Vorbis encoding | |
"-c:a","libvorbis", | |
// target bit rate | |
"-b:a","256K", | |
// Subtitles: copy | |
"-c:s","copy", | |
// File format | |
"-f","webm", | |
// Output to STDOUT | |
"-" | |
]); | |
// Pipe the video output to the client response | |
ffmpeg.stdout.pipe(res); | |
// Kill the subprocesses when client disconnects | |
res.on("close", function(){ | |
ffmpeg.kill(); | |
}) | |
}); | |
// Start server | |
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){ | |
console.log('Open http://localhost:' + app.get('port')+' to view the video from peerflix'); | |
}); |
Hey,
So i am new to ffmpeg, so trying to fetch mp4 video from s3 url and send to client, but its now working some how, could you hep me on it.
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Is this still the best way to convert the a peerflix to html5?