HLS Demo NodeJs

Steps to be followed

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/mondyfy/hls_demo.git && cd hls_demo

2. Install dependencies:

npm i

3. Add songs inside songs folder

4. Install ffmpeg on your system

sudo apt install ffmpeg

5. Make temp/chunks folder

mkdir 'temp/chunks'

6. Covert mp3 to chunks

node utils/mp3tohlschunks.js

7. If you want to upload chunk files to s3 then add s3 credentials in utils/uploadchunkstos3.js and run:

node utils/uploadchunkstos3.js

In order or test the streams

Start the server with npm

npm run start

and request http://127.0.0.1:8000/0.m3u8 the manifest file will be downloaded, here to play the file you have to add one browser extension i.e. Native HLS Playback, that should play the media file you have used. In the meantime, you can inspect the file sequence chunks requested by the client/browser from the server after every 10 seconds the chunk has been loaded.