HLS Stream Creator - Node.js

Create an M3U8 playlist from media file using FFMPEG.

Installation

npm i hls-stream-creator

Prerequisites

This package using fluent-ffmpeg so ffmpeg must be installed it requires at least ffmpeg 0.9 to work.

You must also have ffprobe installed (it comes with ffmpeg in most distributions).

Windows users: most probably ffmpeg and ffprobe will not be in your %PATH, so you must set %FFMPEG_PATH and %FFPROBE_PATH.

Debian/Ubuntu users: the official repositories have the ffmpeg/ffprobe executable in the libav-tools package, and they are actually rebranded avconv/avprobe executables (avconv is a fork of ffmpeg). They should be mostly compatible, but should you encounter any issue, you may want to use the real ffmpeg instead. You can either compile it from source or find a pre-built .deb package at https://ffmpeg.org/download.html (For Ubuntu, the ppa:mc3man/trusty-media PPA provides recent builds).

Usage

const hlsStreamCreator = require('hls-stream-creator');

(async () => {
  const settings = {
    renditions: [
      {
        resolution: {
          width: 1920,
          height: 1080,
        },
        bitrate: 8000,
        audioRate: 320,
      },
      {
        resolution: {
          width: 1280,
          height: 720,
        },
        bitrate: 4000,
        audioRate: 192,
      },
    ],
    printLogs: true
  };
  
  try {
    await hlsStreamCreator('./sample.mkv', './output', settings);
  } catch (err) {
    console.log(`Oops we got an error, err: ${err}`);
  }
})();

API

hlsStreamCreator(src, targetDir, settings?)

Returns a Promise<void>.

src

Type: string

Media file.

If media file does not exists will be thrown an error.

targetDir

Type: string

Destination directory which will hold all the mpeg-ts files with m3u8 files.

settings

Type: object

In addition, you can specify the below options.

renditions

Type:

{
  resolution: {
    width: number, // example: 1920
    height: number, // example: 1080
  },
  bitrate: number, // example: 8000
  audioRate: number, // example: 320
}

Default: []

Must be at least one rendition if not will be thrown an error.

speed

Type: Speed | string
Default: veryfast

The speed will be for making the stream files.

Can be: 'ultrafast' || 'superfast' || 'veryfast' || 'faster' || 'fast' || 'medium' || 'slow' || 'slower' || 'veryslow'

videoCodec

Type: string
Default: libx264

Recommended not to change this value because the default value libx264 is supported in all browsers.

audioCodec

Type: string
Default: aac

Recommended not to change this value because the default value aac is supported in all browsers.

printLogs

Type: boolean
Default: true

In case we want to see the process logs of ffmpeg.

License

MIT