RTMP/HLS in Nginx for 13.04

[John Moser]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from John Moser's message of 2012-11-08 11:45:19 -0800:
> > Viability?
>
> It sounds like you've done most of the hard work of prototyping the
> package changes.
>
> Perhaps the next step would be to submit this as a debdiff to the Debian
> maintainer as a bug report.
>
>
Nod.  I'll have to work this out.  However it crashes in libavformat.so
when using HLS, causing a segfault.  The developer (Roman) suggests using a
newer version of ffmpeg (and NOT using libav); I'll have to try with newer
libav.  I've tried with the ffmpeg in PPA:

  https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ffmpeg

but 0.10 is still too old (March?!).  Was hoping to test with ffmpeg 1.0
and/or the latest libav.

nginx doesn't crash unless you actually enable HLS and then connect
something (i.e. totem) to the HLS stream.  Otherwise this is fairly benign;
it doesn't create trouble elsewhere.  RTMP actually works.  To that end,
I'm thinking that even if it crashes with HLS, it's not any worse (i.e. it
ONLY crashes if you enable HLS in the config) and should be appropriate to
add in (in case the user PPAs a newer libav, or a later bugfix pushed in
updates fixes the crashing behavior--a normal maintenance update in a
released system, whereas compiling in a new module into a package
mid-release is NOT normal maintenance).

That in mind, I need some guidance.  Should I make this part of
nginx-extras, nginx-all, or pop up an nginx-media-server (ANOTHER one?!)
that includes rtmp/hls (and presumably also add it to nginx-all)?


On a related note, we're evaluating nginx for "main" this cycle.
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