guncloud / koajs-streaming

Video Streaming Server with Node.js and Koa

The video streaming server is available at http://localhost:3000/

.env

Below is the default .env file:

PORT=3000

You can change the streaming server port from PORT environment variable.

Videos

Before to run the server, you need to create videos folder and add a video in:

./videos/video.mp4

If you want to change the video, just update src attribute of <video> element in public/index.html.

Supported Formats

Here are the supported formats:

• Theora (Ogg)
• H.264 (MP4)
• HEVC/H.265 (MP4)
• VP8 (WebM)
• VP9 (WebM)
• AV1 (WebM)
• Matroska (MKV)

Opus audio codec is also supported. This applies to mp4, ogg, and webm containers. AAC audio codec is supported as well.

Subtitles

It is possible to add subtitles through <track> element in <video> element in public/index.html as follows:

<video 
    src="http://localhost:3000/api/video/video.mp4"
    playsInline
    muted
    autoplay
    controls 
    controlsList="nodownload"
  >
  <track
    label="English"
    kind="subtitles"
    srclang="en"
    src="captions/vtt/video-en.vtt"
    default />
  <track
    label="Deutsch"
    kind="subtitles"
    srclang="de"
    src="captions/vtt/video-de.vtt" />
</video>

The files that contain subtitles data are simple text files that follow the Web Video Text Tracks (WebVTT) format.

Run

npm install
npm start

Dev

npm install
npm run dev

You can find out more about this project on this CodeProject article.