This plugin was renamed to hlssink3 and is being merged upstream to GStreamer official Rust plugins. Please follow the progress at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/514
A highly configurable GStreamer HLS sink plugin. Based on the hlssink2
element. The flexhlssink
is written in Rust and has various options to configure the HLS output playlist generation.
The plugin is in active development. The first release objective is to have full feature parity with the hlssink2
plugin.
Progress:
- Support all properties exposed by the
hlssink2
plugin; - Write TS content to fragment stream (defaults to filesystem);
- Write HLS playlist m3u8 file;
- Delete old fragments;
- Signal to acquire fragment stream;
- Signal to acquire HLS playlist stream;
- Signal to delete a fragment file;
After installing GStreamer
, it is possible to compile and run the flexhlsplugin
.
cargo build --release
On MacOS it might be necessary to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework/Versions/Current/lib/pkgconfig${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:+:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
An example pipeline:
export PROJECT_DIR=`pwd`
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc is-live=true ! \
x264enc ! h264parse ! flexhlssink target-duration=4 \
--gst-plugin-load=${PROJECT_DIR}/target/release/libflexhlssink.dylib
In another terminal run a simple HTTP server:
cd $PROJECT_DIR
python simple_http.py
Open the example player site https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/ and play the http://localhost:8000/playlist.m3u8
playback URL.