Video to Streaming Format (NestJS)

This project is a simple API built with NestJS that takes a video file as input and converts it to a series of ts file format. It leverages FFmpeg for the video processing.

Prerequisites

Before running this project, you need to have FFmpeg installed on your system.

Installation Instructions:

• Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install ffmpeg

• Linux (Fedora/CentOS):

  sudo dnf install ffmpeg

• macOS: You can install FFmpeg using Homebrew:

  brew install ffmpeg

• Windows: You can install FFmpeg using either of the following methods:
  1. Using Scoop (Recommended): If you have Scoop package manager installed, you can install FFmpeg with:

     scoop install ffmpeg

  2. Manual Installation:
     1. Go to the official FFmpeg website: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html.
     2. Download the appropriate pre-built binaries for Windows.
     3. Extract the downloaded archive to a directory of your choice (e.g., C:\ffmpeg).
     4. Add the bin directory within the extracted folder (e.g., C:\ffmpeg\bin) to your system's PATH environment variable. This allows you to run the ffmpeg command from any terminal.

Project Installation

Follow these steps to set up the project:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/khouwdevin/video-to-streaming-format.git
   cd video-to-streaming-format

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

Running the Application

npm run start # run in production mode
npm run start:dev # run in dev mode with watch
npm run start:debug # run in dev mode with watch and debug

Run with docker

docker build -t video-to-streaming-format .
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 video-to-streaming-format

Add video to public

Add your video to public folder and rename it to video.mp4

Make a request

Make a get request on http://localhost:3000 or if you want to test your server http(s)://{YOUR_SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN}:3000

Result

Machine	RAM	Time
Netcup VPS 500 G11s	900MB	95s
Intel 12700h	1660MB	54s
Rapsberry pi 5	1126MB	97s