How does this work?!

[theraw]

Hi,

I have some question about how does this script work?

#2 you say "Please ensure that your MP4 files have H.264/H.265 video codecs and AAC audio codecs.",

This makes me think that this script doesn't come with any kind of "encoding" like convert mkv/mp4 or change video/audio codec but all it does is "convert" mp4 videos to hls format which shouldn't take much resources to do i mean based on what way you do i'm talking about smth like

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -codec copy -start_number 0 -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_time 3 -hls_list_size 0 -f hls play.m3u8

is this right?!

if that is what it does what happens if some user watches one video and after you generated .m3u8 for that video? do you save the hls files/m3u8 which was generated from first view and provide them to some other user or do you generate a new m3u8/hls i mean converting video everytime a new user tries to open and watch the same video?!

[gkozlenko]

Hi,

You are right, this media server doesn't do any encoding, it just generates .ts and .m3u8 files for viewers. It does it on the fly - without caching for new viewers. It only caches some metadata to parse MP4 files faster.

The media server doesn't use the ffmpeg binaries - everything is written in JavaScript.

Thank you.

[theraw]

@gkozlenko thanks for info adding cache will be better ofcourse for production usage

i'm closing this since i have no issue just asking