Building the H264 Streaming Module from Source (version 2)

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Binaries are provided on this? page. What follows are just the build instructions for the different web servers.

Apache2 + mod_h264_streaming

Make sure you have apxs2 installed:

sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for Apache.

cd ~
svn co http://h264.code-shop.com/svn/h264/branches/parser/apache apache_http_h264_streaming

compile and link (-c), install module in 'modules' directory (-i) and add LoadModule? to httpd.conf (-a).

cd ~/apache_http_h264_streaming
apxs2 -c -i -a mod_h264_streaming.c moov.c

Edit the configuration file (in /etc/apache/httpd.conf) so that file requests ending in ".mp4" are handled by the h264_streaming_module.

LoadModule h264_streaming_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_h264_streaming.so
AddHandler h264-streaming.extensions .mp4

Start Apache.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache start

See http://h264.code-shop.com:82/demo/apache/testlist.html for a demo running Apache.

Nginx + http_h264_streaming_module

Download the source of Nginx. I used (at this time) the latest, which is version 0.7.9.

wget http://www.nginx.eu/download/sources/nginx-0.7.9.tar.gz

Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for Nginx:

cd ~
svn co http://h264.code-shop.com/svn/h264/branches/parser/nginx nginx_http_h264_streaming

Run configure in the Nginx directory with the following additions to the commandline.

./configure --add-module=~/nginx_http_h264_streaming --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-debug

Make and install Nginx.

make
sudo make install

Edit the configuration file (in /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf) so that file requests ending in ".mp4" are handled by the 'mp4' command. Add the following lines (around line 43).

location ~ \.mp4$ {
  mp4;
}

Start Nginx

sudo /usr/local/sbin/nginx

See http://h264.code-shop.com:83/demo/nginx/testlist.html for a demo running Nginx.