bcmmbaga/gohls

A server that exposes a directory for video streaming via web interface

Golang HLS Streamer

Simple server that exposes a directory for video streaming via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Uses ffmpeg for transcoding.

This project is cobbled together from all kinds of code I had lying around so it's pretty crappy all around. It also has some serious shortcomings.

Running it

Important: You need the ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries in your PATH. The server will not start without them. You can find builds most operating systems at https://ffmpeg.org/download.html.

1. Download the binary for your operating system

You can find the latest release on the releases page https://github.com/shimberger/gohls/releases or just download a current snapshot:

• Windows (64 bit)
• Linux (64 bit)
• macOS (64 bit)

2. Create a configuration file

The configuration is stored in JSON format. Just call the file gohls-config.json or whatever you like. The format is as follows:

{
	"folders": [
		{
			"path": "~/Videos",
			"title": "My Videos"
		},
		{
			"path": "~/Downloads",
			"title": "My Downloads"
		}
	]
}

This will configure which directories on your system will be made available for streaming. See the screenshot for details:

3. Run the server

Execute the command gohls serve -config <path-to-config> e.g. gohls serve -config gohls-config.json to serve the videos specified by the config file. To make the server listen on another port or address just use the serve command with --listen like so (the example uses port 7000 on all interfaces): gohls serve --listen :7000 -config <path-to-config>

4. Open a web browser

Visit the URL http://127.0.0.1:8080 to access the web interface.

Contributing

Just do a go get github.com/shimberger/gohls/... in your GOPATH. Then change into the project directory and run the development server by executing ./scripts/run_dev (sorry Windows users, maybe try Windows Subsystem for Linux). You need npm and node to build the frontend.

License

See LICENSE.txt