Video Player

• This is a video player which is able to play a video when video is uploaded through the user from the frontend. It is totally based on FFmpeg which provide all the feature of video player.

• In FFmpeg command the video is divided into segments of defined length and during running time of video it plays it load in segments.

• The FFmpeg Command used here is

  • const ffmpegCommand = `ffmpeg -i ${videoPath} -codec:v libx264 -codec:a aac -hls_time 10 -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_segment_filename "${outputPath}/segment%03d.ts" -start_number 0 ${hlsPath}

• Multer is used to store the video and it create the segment of video file of defined length.

• m3u8 is used which is a UTF-8 incoded file. It is plain text file used to store URL path of streaming audio or video information

• Multer middleware is used to provide the unique name to the videos.

• HLS is used to break down the video into smaller HTTP downloadble files.

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