Smooth Streaming Module for Lighttpd
Download
Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for Lighttpd.
For Lighttpd 1.4.18:
cd ~ wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/lighttpd-1.4.18_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.4.18_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0.tar.gz
For Lighttpd 1.5.0:
cd ~ wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/lighttpd-1.5.0_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.5.0_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0.tar.gz
If you plan to play Multi Bit Rate H.264 encoded videos, you will also need the command line tool 'mp4split' to create the Smooth Streaming manifest files.
wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/mp4split-2.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf mp4split-2.2.0.tar.gz
Build
cd ~/lighttpd-1.5.0_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0 ./configure make sudo make install
cd ~/mp4split-2.2.0 ./configure make sudo make install
Configuration
In your lighttpd.conf you have to enable both the mod_h264_streaming and mod_write modules
server.modules = ( "mod_h264_streaming", "mod_rewrite", )
The mod_h264_streaming is going to serve .mp4 (single bit rate) and .ismv (multi bit rate) video files.
h264-streaming.extensions = ( ".mp4" ,".ismv" )
We're going to rewrite some extensions and REST parameters to query parameters.
url.rewrite-once = ( "^(.*)\.ism/manifest(\?(.*))$" => "$1.mp4?manifest=1", "^(.*)\.ism/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$" => "$1.mp4?$2=$3", "^(.*)/(.*)\.ism/QualityLevels\(([0-9]+)\)/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$" => "$1/$2.ism/$2_$3.ismv?$4=$5", "^(.*)\.ism/QualityLevels\(([0-9]+)\)/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$" => "$1.ism/$1_$2.ismv?$3=$4" )
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.
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