Downloading and building the H264 Streaming Module for AolServer (version 2)

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Dependencies

Please read the official AOLserver site for more information on downloading and install AOLserver and Tcl.

Download

Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for AOLserver.

cd ~
wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/aolserver_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf aolserver_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7.tar.gz

Build

Edit the 'NSHOME' variable in the provided 'Makefile' to point to your installed AOLserver.

Make and install the module.

make
make install

Configuration

Edit your AOLserver configuration file ('nsd.tcl') and add the module:

ns_section "ns/server/server1/modules"
  ns_param mod_h264_streaming mod_h264_streaming.so

Start AOLserver:

bin/nsd -ft nsd.tcl

Usage

test.tcl

set file_url "trailer2.mp4"
set handle [h264open $file_url "start=20&end=30"]
set length [h264length $handle]
ns_startcontent
ns_write "HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: video/mp4
Content-Length: $length
\n"
while {1} {
  if {[h264eof $handle]} {
    break
  }
  set buf [h264read $handle]
  ns_write $buf
}
h264close $handle

The streaming module also implements FLV streaming for convenience. Note that for FLV streaming the start parameter is given in bytes. The module checks the incoming URL for the '.flv' extension, if your FLV video files don't have an extension then you can force it by adding 'input=flv' to the query parameter. E.g:

set file_url "trailer2"
set handle [h264open $file_url "start=43751640&input=flv"]

License

This version is free if you agree to the noncommercial license. Please mention its use on your website, in the lines of 'This website uses H264 pseudo video streaming technology by CodeShop'.

Our commercial license is very inexpensive, see the following page to check if you need a commercial license.

Testing

Continue to the testing page to verify your setup.