Delivering video over HTTP is up and coming. The two protocols that seem to be winning (currently) are HLS and HDS. These are my notes from playing around with HLS.
If you want to play HLS on Linux, this python player works: http://gitorious.org/hls-player . Sometimes recent VCL 2.0.3 works, but not always (and the progress bar behaves very strangely..)
If you want to dump an HLS stream to a single .ts file, use this tool: https://github.com/osklil/hls-fetch
If you want to dump a HLS VOD (video on demand, premade) stream to local disk to play with; try out my quick hls-mirror script: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4755742
If you want to segment some media file for later video-on-demand delivery, using bleeding edge avconv (with just libx264+lamemp3) from git:
avconv -i big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.avi -vcodec h264 -acodec mp3 -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 999999999 foo/output.m3u8
hls_list_size seems to be how many items (of the n made) that should appear in the m3u8 file. Setting to 0 actually means an empty m3u8, so useful!
The outputted files works on my android 4.1 and on my desktop.
Why all this you ask? Because video over HTTP works very well through Varnish, even better with streaming (cut-through forwarding) enabled. Even on mediocre DSL you can make a continous stream/file set, push to a Varnish on AWS/whatever, and anyone can broadcast live to the world. Slightly delayed, but standards based, simple to do and simple to scale.
I think we’ve just seen the start of how cool (and disrupting) this will become.
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Hello,
When we had tried the above command on Ubuntu 12.04 & Ubuntu 11.04 it keeps saying “Unknown encoder ‘h264’. It prints the following output
avconv -i big_buck_bunny_480p.ogv -vcodec h264 -acodec mp3 -hls_time 10 -hls_list_size 999999999 big_buck.m3u8
avconv version v9-1383-g2cf5d29, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on May 28 2013 18:25:37 with gcc 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
[theora @ 0xa98aac0] 7 bits left in packet 82
Input #0, ogg, from ‘big_buck_bunny_480p.ogv’:
Duration: 00:00:32.99, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1057 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: theora, yuv420p, 720×400, 25 fps, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Metadata:
ENCODER : ffmpeg2theora 0.19
Stream #0.1: Audio: vorbis, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 80 kb/s
Metadata:
ENCODER : ffmpeg2theora 0.19
Unknown encoder ‘h264’
Any suggestions would be helpful….
Hi Gowtham.
My guess would be that you need to rebuild avconv with support for libx264.