ffserver

FFserver

Reference: documentation for FFserver.

FFServer as Audio MP3 Stream Server

This is a sample usage for FFServer.

• Create a folder where you'll put the mp3 files to stream

    ls ./audio/file1.mp3
  

• Create a sample configuration file:

    vim ./config/file.conf
  

This is where you'll want to change some settings like the HTTP port or the filename.

• Execute the ffserver container with the audio and config volumes, as well as the configuration file for this case:

    docker run -d \
    -v `pwd`/audio:/audio \
    -v `pwd`/config:/etc/ffserver \
    -p 8090:8090 \
    sjourdan/ffserver:3.0 \
    -f /etc/ffserver/file.conf
  

• You can now access the stats page from your browser: http://192.168.99.100:8090/stat.html by default on docker-machine or http://127.0.0.1:8090/stat.html on linux and note the stream of the file is available. There's some information about the number of connexions, the bandwidth etc.

• The file can now be streamed from http://192.168.99.100:8090/file1.mp3 (adapt the IP) with a player like VLC or an HTML5 web player.

Apache Reverse Proxy CORS Example

To add the CORS authorization to the stream server headers using Apache, on Ubuntu - and replace "*" by whatever domain you want:

$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName a.b.c.d
  DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
  Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  <Location />
    ProxyPass http://a.b.c.d:8090/file1.mp3
  </Location>

  <Directory "/var/www/html">
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then restart Apache:

a2enmod headers proxy_http
service apache2 restart