Hlsdump

This is a library to node.js for dumping (c) Apple Http Live Streaming protocol.

What is (c) Apple Http Live Streaming protocol (HLS) ?

It's a media streaming communication protocol as part of their QuickTime X, iPod, iPhone and Ipad software systems

See wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Why dumping HLS streams with node.js ?

HLS is a streaming protocol based on HTTP protcol and HTTP library in node.js is very interesseting to using it in a dumping program, maybe make a monitoring tool.

How to use it ?

var settings = {
  url: 'http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8', // streaming Url Vod or live stream
  duration: 20, // Duration of dumping
  bandwidth: 300000, // Bandwidth for multibitrate stream (optional)
  filename: 'dump.ts', // Filename
  temporary_folder: 'tmp/', // Temporary Folder for the chunck ts files
  retry : 3 // if 404 error, number of retry
};

var dump = new hlsdump(settings, function (err, result) {
  if (err !== null) {
    console.error('error');
    console.error(err);
  } else {
    console.log('result');
    console.log(result);
  }
});

dump.on('playlist', function (playlist) {
  console.log("New playlist :");
  console.log(playlist);
});

dump.on('error', function (err) {
  console.error("Error:");
  console.error(err);
});

dump.on('downloaded', function (files) {
  console.log("Downloaded:");
  console.log(files);
});

dump.on('done', function () {
  console.log("Done");
});

dump.start();

How to install it ?

• With NPM: npm install hlsdump

In the future ?

• Create a bash program using this library

Thanks to:

• Jay Salvat for code reviewing of the first commit

LICENSE - "MIT License"

Copyright (c) 2013 Thomas Galland

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