Using Nginx to stream h.264 video

[Richard Kearsley]

The primary reason for the mp4 module is to allow seeking of the video before the whole file has been downloaded by flash - it's all a nasty workaround for flash being ****

Mp4 can be used in some browsers with html5 video tag (and most mobile devices)
Otherwise you will have to use one of the flash video players, like flowplayer or jwplayer

The nginx mp4 filter is only beneficial to the latter as it allows pseudo-streaming in flash
Html5 will work fine without the mp4 module and indeed in other httpds, as it uses the http range header (e.g. to seek the video, it just "resumes" the download from a later point)

-----Original Message-----
From: nginx-bounces at nginx.org [mailto:nginx-bounces at nginx.org] On Behalf Of Kaya Saman
Sent: 18 March 2012 18:03
To: nginx at nginx.org
Subject: Re: Using Nginx to stream h.264 video

On 03/18/2012 04:59 PM, Richard Kearsley wrote:
> Nginx can't write a website for you if that's what you mean

No no that's not what I meant :-)

A long time ago I played around with the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple and vaguely recall the mechanism used to call up the .mov files in an html page.

I was more referring to either a jscript or php snippet that would allow for the embed.... just something quick and easy. No biggie though!




>
> It's long hard work making a tube site, either pay someone or get learning :)

I personally don't intend to, the only knowledge I need is what I kinda 
have already but would be nice to know the above (jscript or php) too......


Regards,


Kaya


>
> --
> Richard
>
> On 18 Mar 2012, at 12:44, "Kaya Saman"<kayasaman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 03/18/2012 12:39 PM, Lukas Tribus wrote:
>>>> Is there any guide or howto on how to do this as the documentation seems
>>>> a little sparse!
>>> nginx and the mp4 module documentation is about the server side of things only.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you need documentation and solutions for the client side, take a look at
>>> JWPlayer [1], but remember its off-topic on this list. Longtailvideo has
>>> forums and commercial support offerings, in case you need any support on
>>> JWPlayer.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/
>>>
>>>
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>> Many thanks!
>>
>> I actually discovered how to 'server up' video files using nginx:
>>
>>
>>     location /video/ {
>>         mp4;
>>         mp4_buffer_size     1m;
>>         mp4_max_buffer_size 5m;
>>     root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
>>     }
>>
>>
>> by putting the above into conf.d/default.conf
>>
>>
>> Now it all works fine and am able to access the video via mplayer.
>>
>>
>> Quick question... is building an html page then embedding a video into it client side? I always considered that server side while my view of client side was always just the browser and URL........
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Kaya
>>
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