H264 Streaming With Lighttpd

mod_h264_streaming is based on an already existing lighttpd module (mod_flv_streaming). The basics are very similar and this module allows you to seek in MP4 files.

The module expects a URL which matches h264-streaming.extensions and that can handle a '?start=" part of the request.

The information to pass into the ‘start’ parameter is extracted by the flash-player from the meta-data of the mp4-files. Note that you pass it the 'time' field and not the 'offset' field.

You have to make sure that this meta-data is present in the video stream. See Encoding for more information on how to encode videos.

server.modules = ( 
  ...,
  "mod_h264_streaming",
  ...
)
h264-streaming.extensions = ( ".mp4" )