[FFmpeg-user] HLS remote playback

[Edward Park]

Hi,

> Now, how can I open that file and watch the stream on my laptop with the VLC?
> Do I need some NGNIX or Apache server or FFMPEG can do the job?


Yes, HLS stands for http live streaming, you will need to serve the files over http somehow. Doesn't have to be apache or nginx, I think there's a rudimentary webserver in the python examples for instance.

For the client yes FFmpeg can just take an http scheme url as input, i.e. ffmpeg -i http://hostname/path/to/playlist.m3u8 ...

Regards,
Ted Park