Smooth Streaming Module for Nginx

Dependencies

For more information on downloading and installing Nginx, please read the official ​getting
started instructions.

We will be using version 0.7.9 of Nginx.

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

Download

Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for Nginx.

cd ~
wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/nginx_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf nginx_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

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

cd ~/nginx-0.7.9
./configure --add-module=$HOME/nginx_mod_h264_streaming --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-debug

Make and install Nginx.

make
sudo make install

cd ~/mp4split-2.2.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

Configuration

Edit the configuration file (in /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf) so that file requests ending in '.mp4' and '.ismv' are handled by the 'mp4' command. Add the following lines in your 'server { ... }' section:

if ($is_args = "?") {
rewrite ^(.*)\.ism/manifest$ $1.mp4?manifest=1 last;
}
rewrite ^(.*)\.ism/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$ $1.mp4?$2=$3 last;
rewrite ^(.*)/(.*)\.ism/QualityLevels\(([0-9]+)\)/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$ $1/$2.ism/$2_$3.ismv?$4=$5 last;
rewrite ^(.*)\.ism/QualityLevels\(([0-9]+)\)/Fragments\((.*)=([0-9]+)\)(.*)$ $1.ism/$1_$2.ismv?$3=$4 last;

location ~ \.mp4$ {
mp4;
}
location ~ \.ismv$ {
mp4;
}

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.

Next

Encoding Smooth
Streaming videos.
Playing Smooth
Streaming videos.

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