eflv-nginx-module - the module provides pseudo-streaming server-side support for Flash Video (FLV) files.

This module is not distributed with the Nginx source. See the installation instructions.

• Description
• Installation
• Example
• Directives
  • tflv
  • sflv
• Changes
• Copyright and License
• See Also

It handles requests with the start argument in the request URI’s query string specially, by sending back the contents of a file starting from the requested byte offset and with the prepended FLV header.

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 wget 'http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.9.9.tar.gz'
 tar -xzvf nginx-1.9.9.tar.gz
 cd nginx-1.9.9/

 # Here we assume Nginx is to be installed under /opt/nginx/.
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/nginx \
         --add-module=/path/to/eflv-nginx-module

 make -j2
 make install

location /video1/ {
    tflv;
}

location /video2/ {
    sflv;
}

With this configuration, the following URIs are supported for the “/var/video/test.mp4” file:

http://video.example.com/video1/test.flv?start=1.000&end=2.200
http://video.example.com/video2/test.flv?start=1.000&end=2.200

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syntax: tflv

default: -

context: http, server, location, location if

Turns on module processing in a surrounding location with time.

syntax: sflv

default: -

context: http, server, location, location if

Turns on module processing in a surrounding location with position.

This module is licensed under the BSD license.

Copyright (C) 2011-2016, Xunen leixunen@gmail.com and others. Copyright (C) 2011-2016, Leevid Inc.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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