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Transcode video source to HLS playlist format for Video on Demand (VOD) Streaming

Nodirbek Sharipov on July 28, 2020

INTRO Briefly, we need a Video on Demand (VOD) streaming solution, with Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR). There are two industry standar...

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Mohammad Rahimi • Sep 29 '22

@nodir_dev
Super nice article! many thanks to you!
would I ask to explain these arguments to me plz?

ffmpeg 
-i input.mp4
-profile:v baseline        👈
-level 3.0        👈
-s 640x360
-start_number 0 
-hls_time 10 
-hls_list_size 0 
-f hls        👈
360_out.m3u8

Thank you again for the article.
My email: moyi.pary@gmail.com

rafypichardo • Sep 9 '21

Great tutorial!

What if I want to add an SRT Subtitle?

Best regards,

Nodirbek Sharipov • Sep 23 '21

Thanks, I haven’t tried it with subtitles yet, but that’s good point, will share my findings here once I try it with subtitles

Ilyos Olimov • Jul 28 '20

Good job man

Nodirbek Sharipov • Jul 28 '20

Thanks a lot 🙃

abhijithdj007 • Sep 28 '20

Nicely explained!!

But just had a small doubt, in point 3 you had mentioned about dividing it into smaller 5-10 seconds chuck. Could not find anything about that in the document.

Nodirbek Sharipov • Oct 6 '20

Thak you.
5-10 second chunks are my approximate values for each output video file, not necessarily have to be that long. Length of the chunks represent duration of video which is obtained upon every buffer request. I just made up those numbers based on average video lengths of output files just for general conception