Aliaksei Sapach
Aliaksei Sapach
I need to think about it. I'm not sure if ffmpeg will support proper streaming over torrent-stream. I'll take a look at https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg
See #20. If you append `?ffmpeg=probe` to the end of the video URL it will return the metadata in JSON format. `?ffmpeg=remux` will remux the file, e.g. will convert from...
It turns out that [WEBM](http://www.webmproject.org/) is a much more suitable alternative for streaming video (e.g. youtube uses it) and it has better browser support now. I've replaced remuxing with transcoding...
You can install the VLC browser plugin and it will handle .mkv files. You can also open the video in VLC manually by copying the link, opening VLC, then `Media...
Works for me: http://hastebin.com/eriwikilis.1c
Another alternative to plain remuxing/transcoding could be [HLS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming), an Apple proprietary protocol that is supported by iOS and Android, and some players including VLC (though might be problematic in the...
Yes, remuxing to WebM should be working. Please make sure that you have ffmpeg in your path: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg#ffmpeg-and-ffprobe and check the console/logs for error messages.
Do you have any suggestions how this would work, implementation-wise?
So you would have one frontend and multiple backends? How do you choose which backend to connect to? How do you envision the user experience? I like the idea, but...
If you can get it to work for both relative and absolute urls, PR is welcome.