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Lighttpd For x264 and FLV streaming

December 29, 2009 Server Administration

First of all u have to get some stuff…

yum install pcre pcre-devel glib2 glib2-devel

and then lets beggin…

wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/lighttpd-1.5.0_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.5.0_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.6.tar.gz

cd lighttpd-1.5.0

./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=${HOME} (usually i use /lighttpd for home folder)

make

make install

and viola..  you got your stream server installed...

now some stuff to add to config

nano lighttpd.conf

server.modules = (
  ...,
  "mod_h264_streaming",
  "mod_flv_streaming",
  ...
)
h264-streaming.extensions = ( ".mp4" )
flv-streaming.extensions = ( ".flv" )
and your done..
 now to start yor server and stream...
/lighttpd/sbin/lighttpd -f /location_of_your_lighttpd.conf
and its up and runnig...

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