Server usage: ------------- $ ./stp-server Runs on port 8000 by default. Further options can be seen with the --help flag: $ ./stp-server --help The server supports multiple PUT streams and multiple GET streams for each PUT stream. Usage with curl: ---------------- Sending a stream (PUT): $ curl -v "http://localhost:8000/somepath" -T - < [some video file] This will use Chunked encoding and send the file in chunks. Optionally, you can rate limit to emulate a live stream (--limit-rate) Trying to create two streams on the same path will return a 409. Reading the webm output stream (GET): $ curl -v "http://localhost:8000/somepath" > [some output file] The server supports multiple PUT requests on different paths, and multiple GET requests from these paths. A running/encoding stream can be aborted by sending a GET request with the query "abort" to a path where a stream is running. $ curl -v "http://localhost:8000/somepath?abort" Usage with souphttp: -------------------- Sending a stream from a file (PUT): $ gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=[video file] ! \ souphttpclientsink location="http://localhost:8000/somepath" This will use a persistent HTTP connection and Content-Length + Content-Range headers to send the stream data. Reading a webm output stream (GET): $ gst-launch-1.0 souphttpsrc location="http://localhost:8000/somepath" ! \ filesink location=[some output file] Known bugs: ----------- * Doing a massive PUT in a single go (say, 300-400MB or more) of a WebM file causes the server to become overwhelmed. This problem doesn't happen for non-WebM file dumps. Note however, that this is not a problem in the usual mode of operation using live streams. * Opening multiple GET streams from the same PUT stream works, but clients other than the first one might timeout due to a bug that is being investigated. * There are no queue size limit handling for PUT streams, and hence the server can take a lot of memory if the PUT stream is sending data faster than it can be encoded. In most circumstances, this is actually a feature. :-)