I find it hard to find some conclusive information on this. I have a dedicated server in a datacenter with Debian 5.0. I have an iPhone/iPad app which uses a JAVA EE (Glassfish 2.1) backend, and I am in the process of implementing video into the App. This includes live streaming and video’s are longer than 10 minutes I need HTTP Live Streaming.
What is the best open-source/free solution to implement? This is only a pilot project, so I don’t want to subscribe to any paid service. I have currently nothing in place yet for the live streaming, so am flexible to adapt any system (server or client side).
I came across:
- Darwin (but am not sure that project is alive, as there is not a lot of info)
- Red5 (but cannot find conclusive if this would allow an easy implementation of HTTP live streaming)
- FFMPEG
Regarding the video’s, I would ideally like to upload a 720p version to the server (for iPad) and then convert automatic (either on the fly when requested or prepared when the file is uploaded) to the required formats for iPhone/iTouch and low bandwidth. For live streaming I would like to be able to provide the content in about 30 seconds from it streaming into the server.
I am not envisaging high demands (e.g. a lot of simultaneous requests, and if so (e.g. live event) on one stream which should be able to be dealt with using HTTP-live streaming, it only needs encoding and segmenting once).
In the )not so near) future android will probably be made part of the App as well.
Any hints/tutorial/suggestions/advice would be really appreciated.
Latest development version of VLC supports HTTP live streaming.
You’ll have to build from source as this has been added to the git repository not so long ago.
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming_for_the_iPhone