Generate and host HTTP Live Streams from local video content using FFMpeg. Broadcaster will create playlists of your video files and live stream the playlist. It will orchestrate time keeping to make sure anyone watching your stream is in the same position. If no one is watching, the timeline keeps going, just like a old school TV stations.

• Broadcaster uses FFMpeg to encode your videos to h264 for HTTP Live Streaming.
• If you have an Nvidia GPU, it is highly recommended you have ffmpeg compiled with Nvidia's non-free h264_nvenc codec.
• If you have an Intel CPU with Intel QuickSync, you can try the h264_qsv codec.
• Without either of these, you'll have to use a software codec like libx264 which may not be able to keep up in real time. You can set the codec in the config.txt.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/theodoreroddy/Broadcaster.git

Change into the Broadcaster directory and run npm install:

cd ./Broadcaster
npm install

Define your channels in a channels.json file:

[{
  "type": "shuffle",
  "name": "My Channel",
  "slug": "mychannel",
  "paths": [
    "/path/to/videos.mkv"
  ]
}]

The type specifies the playlist type:

• shuffle: will shuffle the files and play them in a random order.
• alphabetical: will play the files back in alphabetical order.
• tv: will look for S##E## codes in the file name and create a playlist cycling through shows, starting each of them from the first episode. Provide paths for multiple TV shows to use this. Not implemented yet, other ideas exist as well such as cadence/daily scheduling.

The name is a human readable name for the channel and the slug specifies the directory name the channel use.

Start your server:

npm start