On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Lucas Rolff wrote: > > is it too much to ask for nginx to implement this > > It depends on what you want to get implemented. > > You can just have a location block in nginx handing mp4 and then using the > slice module as Roman already mentioned, this will cause the initial chunk > (which contains the MOOV atom) to be loaded pretty quickly even for big > files, and thus enable pseudo streaming rather quickly (if the mp4 is not > encoded with the MOOV atom in the end which happens in so many cases). > > The only problem you'll have can be invalidating the cache of a file if you > use the slice module, since you basically have to calculate every cache > entry that you want to remove from the cache (starts from 0 and increments > the number of bytes that you've set in the slice size), the only thing > making it hard is the very last slice since this will be equal or less than > your slice size. > > So you can do it already out of the box using the slice module. > > Now, sure it would be nice for the mp4 module to support pseudo streaming > for files that are not yet in the cache - this however requires nginx to be > aware of where to seek in a file that is not yet on the filesystem - it can > be done, but I don't think it's super pretty.
In fact, we came up with a pretty solution long ago. The mp4 module should be a filter. But reimplementing it does not seem to be easy. > tbs wrote: > >is it too much to ask for nginx to implement this feature if others can do > >it via their own developers? > > > >i couldn't find developer that are familiar with this, i looked already. > > > >Posted at Nginx Forum: > >https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,276322,276334#msg-276334 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >nginx mailing list > >nginx@nginx.org > >http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > nginx@nginx.org > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx -- Roman Arutyunyan _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
