NodeJS Video Utility Platform

A NodeJS application to upload, watch and stream live videos.

Installation

• Clone the repository and run following commands:

  • npm install
  • touch .env

• Configure following environment variables in .env file:

  • NODE_ENV : development / staging / production
  • PORT : Port to run the app. (Default: 4000)
  • DB_USERNAME : Postgres database username
  • DB_PASSWORD : Postgres database password
  • DB_NAME : Postgres database name
  • DB_HOST : Postgres database host
  • DB_PORT : Postgres database port
  • REDIS_HOST : Redis database host
  • REDIS_PORT : Redis database port
  • REDIS_PASSWORD : Redis database password
  • NMS_RTMP_PORT : Node media server RTMP port.(Default: 1935)
  • NMS_HTTP_PORT : Node media server HTTP port. (Default: 8001)
  • NMS_HTTP_MEDIA_ROOT : Root path of video files directory used by Node media server. (Default: /uploads/liveMedia)
  • VIDEO_UPLOAD_BUFFER_SIZE : Buffer size for uploading videos in chunks. (Default: 2 MiB)
  • VIDEO_UPLOAD_MAX_FILE_SIZE : Max video file size to be uploaded. (Default: 10 MiB)
  • SENTRY_DSN (optional): DSN Url of sentry for error tracking
  • WS_VIDEO_UPLOAD_BUFFER_SIZE : Buffer size for uploading videos using websocket. (Default: 10 MiB)
  • WS_VIDEO_UPLOAD_CHUNK_SIZE : Chunk size for uploading videos using websocket. (Default: 2 MiB)
  • MEDIA_UPLOAD_PATH : Path to save uploaded media files. (Default: /uploads)

• Make sure that database has been created with same name as DB_NAME mentioned in .env file.

• Run following commands

  • npx sequelize-cli db:migrate
  • npm start

Built With

• ExpressJS : Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Sequelize : An easy-to-use multi SQL dialect ORM for Node.js
• Node Media Server : A Node.js implementation of RTMP/HTTP-FLV/WS-FLV/HLS/DASH/MP4 Media Server
• Typescript : TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript
• node-fluent-ffmpeg : A fluent API to FFMPEG
• connect-busboy : Connect middleware for busboy (A streaming parser for HTML form data for node.js)

Todos

• Write tests for all APIs, Jobs, Middlewares

• Improve latency in live video streamings

• Move uploads folder to blob storage

• Add user management and authentication functionalities

• Write API, Websocket documentation

• Handle duplicate video upload by name

• Complete all inline TODO comments

• ...