HTTP Live Streaming for Webtorrent

[datnguyencse]

Please think about it, a player use p2p (webtorrent) and HLS (m3u8) or video ( mp4, flv....) would be interesting. I am looking for this but not found any player free, https://www.peer5.com/ or http://www.streamroot.io/ is two of the best but trial only, not free.

[rom1504]

That's an interesting topic yeah. It's probably out of scope for webtorrent, but you might want to look into that recent work from substack https://github.com/substack/append-only-torrent

duplicate of #243 and #14

[ericwooley]

I am working on a project to do this (webm only for now). You need to mess with the init headers of the video, and make sure codecs line up. If you want to look through how it works so far. If there is interest in helping with my project, I plan to open source it eventually. I can open source it sooner rather than later. I just want to clean it up and make a clear roadmap first.

https://github.com/ericwooley/VideoAppendTesting/blob/master/src/scripts/libs/media-streamer.js

https://github.com/ericwooley/VideoAppendTesting

http://ericwooley.github.io/VideoAppendTesting/

[brusacco]

Any updates about this?
Found https://github.com/bemtv/bemtv ...

There are any samples of seeding from a buffer? Maybe we can load the remote mp4 into a buffer, and seed it? Or must be the hole file in buffer. Thanks!

[jimmywarting]

Just want to point out that HLS is not a standard and it would be nice to lean towards DASH instead

what is the difference between hls and mpeg dash
browser support

At the very best: build DASH support with HLS fallback. if "HTTP Live Streaming for Webtorrent" ever becomes a thing.

There is also a dash.js polyfill that works remarkable good

[Cheedoong]

Agree with @jimmywarting
Recall the history of .avi, .flv, ..., and the ISO standard .mp4; Gopher and the W3C/IETF standard HTTP...

[feross]

Looks like there's some cool experimentation going on here 👍 Feel free to continue discussing, but I'm going to close this issue since it's out-of-scope for this repo (and the main webtorrent project). This makes it easier to see where the real issues are :)

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